Posted on 10/13/2016 6:40:14 AM PDT by pabianice
Well, here it is. Another bright and sunny Columbus Day weekend in the United States and, despite the fact that some cities such as Denver, Seattle and our own Amherst and Northampton are opting to rebrand the holiday as Indigenous Peoples Day, we are still not talking about real Native issues.
It is shocking to me that it has taken us until now to even begin to acknowledge the unimaginable insensitivity of having a national holiday named after a man who not only committed genocide and mass enslavement of indigenous peoples in South America, but who also paved the way for the unmitigated slaughter and both social and cultural destruction of native people in North America...
One of the most glaring issues in the Native community is that of police violence. Native peoples make up roughly one percent of the total U.S. population, and yet they account for almost two percent of all police killings. Mass incarceration also remains a problem in tribal nations, the worst offender being Hawaii which has an indigenous population of only 10 percent, yet indigenous people make up 39 percent of the incarcerated population...
America is a nation that was founded on the exploitation and killing of Indigenous Peoples. It is no secret...
Christin Howard is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at christinhowa@umass.edu.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycollegian.com ...
Some people are MORE “indigenous” than others. Fighting, killing and taking “other peoples’ land” has been going on since the beginning of time. Americans weren’t the first to do it. The college twinkies and snowflakes really need to lighten up.
Books you need to read about the Indian Wars before your mind is perverted by modern apologists, movies and TV shows..
Massacres of the Mountains by J.p. Dunn Jr.
On the Border with Crook by Burke
My Life on the Plains by Custer
The Indian Wars of 1864 by Lt Ware.
The Savage Years by Shepard Rifkin.
Almost any book written by a Mountain Man. Andrew Garcia, Osborn Russell. John Y. Nelson, and way too many others.
Web sites;
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-mexican-site-yields-sacrifice-spaniards.html
http://ancientstandard.com/2007/07/17/csi-new-mexico-%E2%80%93-possible-genocide-ca-1275-ad/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2885-mass-human-sacrifice-unearthed-in-peru/
http://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0601_wireanasazi.html
http://www.jeffposey.net/2015/08/18/were-the-anasazi-cannibals/
Back about 1980 there was a show on OETA Oklahoma called IMAGES OF INDIANS. In one episode, a young Indian man said Indians NEVER scalped or tortured anyone! “They would not do anything like that!” But they DID!
YEP! Ancient life in the Americas was all peaches and cream before the “evil” White Man showed up and brought civilization!
What happened when Columbus landed on these shores would have turned out no different if any other group of more advanced people had gotten here first.
Yes I know the Norse landed in Canada, but the fact is they didn't really do anything.
Columbus established permanent relations between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
If the Chinese or Koreans would have encounter the native peoples, they would have subdued them the same way.
Because the North American Indians were a stone age people who didn't even work in Metals or the Wheel.
While the Europeans wore Armor and had Guns.
Hey Christin—If the US is so suck, what are you doing hanging around?
I prefer to call them early settlers, which is much more accurate.
Columbus didn’t engage in genocide or mass enslavement. He merely made the discovery for Europe.
And had the aborigines had the technology, they’d have invaded Europe.
This is all so much crap.
Hey Howard, why dont you go #### your mother where the sun dont shine!!
Italian Americans have contributed a THOUSAND times more than a bunch of drunk has beens bathing in self pity for over a century now.
I’d LOVE to have a “talk” with Howard. As it is, i’ll track him down on twitter or facebook and let him know my thoughts.
If it were truly genocide then there would be no remnants of these ‘indigenous’ people to start with. Secondly, a group of indigenous people who were nomadic in nature, moving to one area to rape it of its resources, game and the like and then moving on to the next “utopia” do the same thing are not a noble race that justifies the incessant reverence and awe for their barbarity.
These people scalped, murdered, and took females and childre from other tribes as slaves and if you want to go further south, they had sacrifices and they play games with the heads of their captured. Hardly civilized, hardly worthy of the pedestal reverence they seem to garner all to bring down western man.
Howie should drive a cab in the ####ing projects for a week,
This ####ing FAGGOT wouldn’t last a day!
Needles, urine, used condoms, roaches, it’s disgusting the way they live, those DISPROPORTIONATELY incarcerated.
This #### sucker.
I say the day shoud be called STD Exchange Day.
Happy “New World Conquest Day”!
For example, the Cree Indians call themselves Human Beings, but any other tribes are "Wild Indians" i.e. NOT humans. Most of the tribes there have the same feelings.
When you have such feelings it makes killing or subjugating them much easier, much like why in the U.S. we called the Japanese "Japs", the Germans "Krauts", and the North Vietnamese "Gooks". The only group of people all tribes are united in hating is the dreaded wahseechu, or White Man.
Let’s talk about shutting the F@@@ up about the country that feeds you.
The Injuns were not all kind to one another, huh.
Maybe this is what led to Christopher Columbus (if the allegations are correct) to think the only rightful thing to do with them was to enslave them.
Happily for the Injuns that were left, the Christian faith of Christopher Columbus’ mates was such as to disagree, and Columbus himself went back to Spain in chains.
We have a messy situation where nobody can boast sporting a halo. However, the Injuns could do the best today by not acting like a people that needs to be enslaved, even though white man’s law currently forbids it. Because what happens if the white man falls out of power?
In a collision of cultures, the more powerful culture won. Thus has it always been.
That Indian culture has survived at all is a tribute to the White Man’s forbearance.
I’ve never understood the left’s denial that Indians, Africans, or Aborigines were no different that the Europeans.
They fought against each other, took slaves, built empires, and competed for resources just like anyone else.
But today you’d think they all sat around naked, and communed with nature while playing New Age music.
This guys is a typical idiot...
Look, there are more people today claiming “native american” ancestry in the United States today than there were Native Americans on the entire North American Continent when Columbus discovered the new world. So, if genocide was committed against native americans it was a very piss poor genocide.
Was the treatment of native americans always great? nope, but I am tired of this genocide nonsense. Europeans conquered the natives, no doubt.. but the history of expansion and conquering is hardly something new, and hardly something distinct to those from Europe... they just have been the best at it in modern history.
No one, no one, no one alive cannot trace their family back to a people who were enslaved or conquered at some point in human history.
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