COLUMBUS CONTROVERSY--Kirkpatrick Sale, author of “The Conquest...

COLUMBUS CONTROVERSY--Kirkpatrick Sale, author of “The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy,” will speak; Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, 8th Street one block east of Honnold Library; 7 p.m. Wednesday (free).

MORE COLUMBUS--Sioux activist Martin Brokenleg will address “Columbus and the Native Peoples: 500 Years and Still Ticking” at St. Robert’s Auditorium, Loyola Marymount University in Westchester on Friday at 7 p.m. The event is free.