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Indigenous Peoples' Day will replace Columbus Day on Evanston's calendar
Chicago Tribune ^ | 4/27/2016 | Bob Seidenberg

Posted on 04/28/2016 2:41:13 PM PDT by Borges

Evanston is joining a number of other cities, teaming with the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day on the city's celebration calendar later this year.

The city and museum, which is based in Evanston at 3001 Central St., announced Wednesday in a press release hey are joining other cities, universities and cultural institutions to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day, to be celebrated Monday, Oct. 10.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bobseidenberg; chicago; columbusday; evanston; illinois
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This sort of thing is happening all over.
1 posted on 04/28/2016 2:41:13 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

These welfare cases already have “Indian Summer”...what else do they want???


2 posted on 04/28/2016 2:42:12 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Borges

WTF did indians do except get in the way. tough luck.

Italians have done a lot and we really enjoyed that holiday and the parades.

this ####ing country is getting me sick.


3 posted on 04/28/2016 2:42:13 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Borges

The current “Indigenous peple” killed off the previous “indigenous people” so that should be the focus of the celebration.


4 posted on 04/28/2016 2:43:34 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Borges

They don’t understand why Columbus day is being celebrated.

It’s about courage, forging into the unknown, the intrepid warrior, explorer, scientist, etc.

“Indigenous people” isn’t the parallel....Turn it into “Land on the Moon” Day. That’s an exact parallel.


5 posted on 04/28/2016 2:45:19 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Borges

The Sopranos’ take on the matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbbMIg-Aw8E


6 posted on 04/28/2016 2:45:19 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Borges

IOW this is a microagression attack on the itallian sailor immigrants.


7 posted on 04/28/2016 2:47:01 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Borges

what a farce!

truly, ‘we live in an era of smart phones and stupid people..”


8 posted on 04/28/2016 2:48:00 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: Borges

Instead of Cowboys and Indians, children will now be required to play Bovine Abusers and Indigenous People.


9 posted on 04/28/2016 2:48:32 PM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: Borges

Nothing like cultural suicide to make things better...


10 posted on 04/28/2016 2:48:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Ted Cruz, "But it's what plants need!")
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To: Borges

To celebrate, they’ll raid and loot nearby villages, take slaves and rip their hearts out of their still beating chests.


11 posted on 04/28/2016 2:53:47 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: dp0622

Kind of ironic; in the old western movies depicting hundreds of Indians attacking on horseback, that most of them were Sicilian extras.

It isn’t Indians making these PC changes, it’s whitebread liberals.

Since observing Columbus Day is politically incorrect, that’s exactly what I do.


12 posted on 04/28/2016 2:54:38 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Borges
Because indigenous people never did bad things to other people. You know...like raiding their villages, killing a lot people, and taking hundreds or thousands back to their own place to slaughter them in ceremonial rituals.

And of course, many of them never took the lands of the people they conquered/slaughtered.

Nah..never happened with those "indigenous" people. /s

13 posted on 04/28/2016 2:55:03 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: elcid1970

probably because they were dark.

we’ve gotten lighter through the generations lol. Is that possible?

why doesn’t anyone who feels so bad living on land “stolen” frmo the indians, sell everything and give it to indians.

hypocrites.


14 posted on 04/28/2016 2:57:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Borges

Reminds me of that Sopranos episode about Columbus Day.


15 posted on 04/28/2016 3:01:59 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: dp0622

I hope you’re kidding about the Indians.


16 posted on 04/28/2016 3:02:57 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Borges

Idiocy runs pretty deep in liberal circles.....


17 posted on 04/28/2016 3:21:02 PM PDT by Stayfree
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To: Borges

Indigioness people? Aren’t they from the Australian Outback?


18 posted on 04/28/2016 3:24:25 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: Borges

Stone age savages day. BTW, Columbus never reached the North American continent.


19 posted on 04/28/2016 3:35:28 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (It's the apocalypse, lets have some fun!)
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To: Borges

Give it back to the Indians then you pathetic hypocritical maggots.


20 posted on 04/28/2016 3:41:52 PM PDT by karnage
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