yeah, he met the Ariwacks(sp) i own property on St.Croix and the place he landed there has become a real hole... no love lost on old Chris there i'll tell ya
Posted on 05/13/2005 6:20:34 AM PDT by owls_man
Portland schoolchildren will continue to celebrate Columbus Day rather than "Columbus/Indigenous People's Day" or "Indigenous People's Day/Columbus Day."
A measure that would have renamed the national holiday in October to honor both the explorer and American Indians failed to gain majority support of the Portland School Committee Wednesday.
But the 4-4 vote on the proposal was encouraging to committee member Jason Toothaker, the original proponent, who said he may introduce it again next year.
"A lot of the people who voted against it spoke in support of the idea," said Toothaker, one of three Green Party members on the committee who backed the proposal.
Toothaker said he proposed the name change because Christopher Columbus exploited and spread disease among the American Indians he encountered during his 1492 voyage. Today, many Indians view his arrival in the Americas as a tragedy. Schoolchildren at the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Indian Reservation, for example, do not observe the holiday.
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How many Americans came overseas from Indigeny?
Slapping my hand against my forehead and screaming....
Columbus never met American Indians. EVER! They had a 90% infant mortality rate. They were Neo-Lithic.
John Kerry spoke in support of the idea, before he voted against it.
"many Indians view his arrival in the Americas as a tragedy"
Yeah, so? Get over it.
Stupidity knows no bounds.
Portland has turned into a leftist sinkhole
Columbus didn't meet any indians in America. He landed in Hispanola didn't he? BTW, he came to my mother's country and called it Trinidad. I'm glad that's all the involvment Spain had with my mother's country. Spanish colonies aren't anything to write home about.
I wonder if the, no doubt, PC people who come up with terms like "Indigenous People" and "Native American" realize how "Eurocentric" those names are? It's really quite funny. Anyway, I was born in the US and consider myself a "Native American" and "Indigenous".
yeah, he met the Ariwacks(sp) i own property on St.Croix and the place he landed there has become a real hole... no love lost on old Chris there i'll tell ya
I attribute it to the political system of Spain. A discussion of the French entails a whole thread in itself! LOL
absolutely... STX has lived under five different flags
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