Posted on 10/10/2016 2:41:13 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Vermont ditches Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples' Day
http://www.mynbc5.com/article/vermont-ditches-columbus-day-for-indigenous-peoples-day/5068016
Vermont ditches Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples' Day
Governor signs proclamation changing traditional holiday Updated: 7:40 PM EDT Oct 7, 2016
Brad Evans Digital Media Manager HARTFORD, Vt. —
Vermont has officially changed Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Gov. Peter Shumlin signed an executive proclamation Thursday, making the change.
Under the decree, Shumlin said a growing number of cities in towns in the United States have recognized the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
The day is "an opportunity to celebrate indigenous heritage and resiliency," the proclamation stated.
"I think it's been a really long time coming," said White River Junction Cartoon Studies student Erienne McCray. "Now Vermont has built in this day to celebrate indigenous peoples and i think that's fantastic.
Vermont traditionally "recognizes the historic, cultural and contemporary significance of the Indigenous Peoples of the land that later became known as the Americas, including Vermont," Shumlin's decree stated.
"The State of Vermont recognizes that it was founded and is built upon lands first inhabited by the Indigenous Peoples of this region - the Abenaki and their ancestors and allies - and acknowledges and honors the members of the community, both past and present."
Shumlin encouraged all Vermonters to celebrate the new holiday.
The City of Hartford will vote on a resolution to recognize the holiday name change.
"One of the select board members said 'hey, we should have a discussion about Columbus day in consideration of Indiginous people's day,'" Hartford Town Manager Leo Pullar said.
Pullar said the Selectboard probably won't vote on the idea for months, and the state has final approval over the change. He said the issue is important to many in the area.
"The Abenaki, one of the indiginous peoples of this area...culturally, historically have given great contributions to this area," Pullar said.
At least 1,700 members of the Nulhegan-Memphremagog tribe of the Abenaki still live in several areas of Vermont. The tribe has its own government and constitution.
The push to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day began in 1977. It has gained in popularity in recent years.
Shumlin's proclamation is specific to only 2016. A spokesman for the governor said it could be issued yearly by the next governor, if he or she desired.
The proclamation was requested by Rich Holschuh, who is a gubernatorial appointee to the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs.
South Dakota is the only other state to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Vermont became the 14th state in 1791
WTF
Fine... they can get their own day, but a different day. Today is Columbus Day.
So happy I no longer have property in that state.
Good reason to be happy : )
I still say it should be renamed “STD Exchange Day”.
Being happy sounds gay.
I don’t see any reason or need to celebrate cultural dead-enders that couldn’t progress themselves beyond the stone-age.
shumlin...what a suprise
they can kiss my ITALIAN ass. Those same natives were cannibals and slave traders. Now these poor people dont pay taxes, get free land and education, and open up casinos without paying a dime. And they got the shaft?
No, gays are disease-ridden, rum screwing faggots. Much different.
The Marxist revisionism to create such dumb people who know nothing of Truth—nothing of Reality—nothing of real History-—nothing of human nature-—so they will be SO DUMB and believe Boys are Girls and Men can be Women-—whoops-—the sheeple already “think” that way-———just exactly like Fichte’s Wet Dream where human beings will be incapable of Free Will (of critical thinking).
Just cattle-—sheeple-—to be controlled and herded and culled by their masters, the psychopathic Freemasons—the sodomites who run all the Boy-Sex slavery like in the White House/UN/etc,, who are normalizing their religion (Lucifereanism) in our skools (Pride in anal sex) and in destroying sexual identity formation in children so they will remain stupid and willing sacrifices to the He-She goat god where Slavery is Freedom, Up is Down and Truth is Dead.
Welcome, to the Brave New World where EVERYTHING you “think” is totally controlled by the elite psychopaths like in Common Core.
It’s okay to be racist against whites because racism.
We’re living out 1984 right according to script:
“”It’s a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word, which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well – better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words – in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston?”
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.”
I’m not sure what it is called in Minneapolis or Minnesota, but the news station was calling it indigenous people day.
That’s right!
And they are not “indigenous.”
Their ancestors came from what used to be called Soviet Central Asia and the coast of China.
Their ancestors were here in the Americas first, but they are not native to the Americas.
A Cartoon studies student??? She’s majoring in Cartoon studies??? Colleges have courses and departments for the study of cartoons???
Am I reading this correctly????
So I assume this means all the guilt-ridden usurpers are going to give their stolen land and homes back to the indigenous peoples and move out of Vermont and back to Europe?
No? Oh, wait, I forgot: this is just a lot of meaningless blather designed to signal to the world how “progressive” and virtuous you are without it actually costing you anything.
executive proclamation HEH HEH..
Otherwise, be thankful that Columbus opened the door that eventually created America as we know it today.
"It was the Lord who put it into my mind, (I could feel His hand upon me), the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures....... Columbus Journal..
Perhaps we ditch Vermont.
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