Posted on 06/13/2014 4:01:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
A northern New Mexico town council has voted to change the name of Kit Carson Park over concerns by critics that the famed scout and explorer was cruel to American Indians.
The Taos Town Council passed a resolution Tuesday to rename the downtown park Red Willow following a presentation from activists, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Council member Fritz Hahn said one American Indian activist felt uncomfortable in the park, which is named after someone who egregiously hurt her people. "We have got to heal the wreckage of the past, and Kit Carson is part of that," Hahn said
Carson, who died in in 1868, is buried in the cemetery at the park and his name is all over Taos. He largely is known as an explorer, trapper, soldier and American Indian agent.
But Carson was ordered by the U.S. Army to relocate around 8,000 Navajo men, women and children 300 miles from Arizona to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on what's called the "Long Walk." An estimated 200 Navajos died from cold and starvation after traveling in brutal and harsh winter conditions for almost two months.
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What a crock! Didn’t we give them beads and firewater?
True, but they fought back with sending us Lizzie Warren
And disease and Casinos?
Taos should stand on their principles and give their entire city back to the natives.
Navajos really dislike Kit Carson.
I heard the Texas Rangers and Texas settlers had to kill a lot of indians that were raiding and killing settlers.
I guess we should rename Texas, La Raza.
They gonna rename the capital of Nevada too?
“...one American Indian activist felt uncomfortable in the park...”
Is this satire?
Do I hear any objections over naming America after Amerigo Vespucci?
I despise these people and their stupid idiotic PC crap!!
This is so frickin sad.
I live in the Carson Valley within 1/4 mile of the Carson River. To the west of me is the Carson Range that rises to over 10,000 feet. 15 miles to the north is Carson City which is the capital of the state where I live. I suspect that we will have visitors soon.
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A nation of pathetic deracinated wimps.
Lets all kill ourselves & pretend we never existed.
Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers. Must erase history of white privilege and replace it with history of gangbangers.
“But Carson was ordered by the U.S. Army to relocate around 8,000 Navajo men, women and children 300 miles from Arizona to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on what’s called the “Long Walk.” An estimated 200 Navajos died from cold and starvation after traveling in brutal and harsh winter conditions for almost two months.”
The article doesn’t mention that he was out of the army and back home at the time of the ‘Long Walk’.
KC married into and lived with the Indians. It was tough back in those days but he fought against the Indians and at the same time tried to treat them in a humane manner.
KC was a good man and shouldn’t be vilified in this manner.
Don’t rename the prk, shoot every indian tht enters it.
we better start making a list and raising hell about things real Americans are uncomfortable with.
we also better start applying the Reagan doctrine if we are going to save this republic - “We Win - they lose”
Gee, without Kit Carson, I wonder where non-Native American Fritz Hahn might be living right about now.
Frankfurt? Dusseldorf?
Maybe he could self repatriate and leave the keys to his lovely Taos home for some deserving Zuni.
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