Posted on 10/02/2007 6:48:42 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
On the 100th anniversary of the Columbus Day Parade through downtown Denver this Saturday, American Indian protesters are planning to stop the parade in its tracks.
"The leaders in last year's parade were people dressed up as members of the Third Cavalry. That was the unit who fought in the Sand Creek Massacre. It has nothing to do with Italian heritage," said Glenn Spagnuolo, one of the protest organizers who spoke at a rally this morning at Denver's City and County Building. He referred to the bloody 1864 Sand Creek raid by Colorado militiamen, in which 160 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians — mostly women and children — were slaughtered.
"The symbolism of those marchers was very clear — racism and hate. It was the same message as the three nooses in Jena, Louisiana," he said.
Spagnuolo, who is of Italian heritage, and Glenn Morris, an organizer and an American Indian, said they have invited a large number of sympathizers to help disrupt Saturday's parade.
"There will be a large action Saturday morning to confront this parade," Spagnuolo said. "This holiday is going to die here. The time for talk is over."
Morris clarified that his group Saturday "will use every nonviolent, constitutionally protected" means of opposing the marchers.
The American Indian movement says it does not support the parade because Columbus did not discover America — Indians had lived here for generations before Europeans arrived.
Previous parades have been disrupted, with arrests made. But the parade never has been stopped.
If it wasn’t for Columbus, we wouldn’t be here now. Thank God for Columbus.
So, these folks want to disrupt a parade? And exactly how does anyone?
OK, OK. So you are all victims. Feel better?
Now, on with the parade, already!
s/b “An exactly how does anyone benefit from this?”
Sorry. Need more coffee.
He's free to go back to Italy any time.
Can someone draw the connection for me between Christopher Columbus (Italian, 1492) and the Third Cavalry at Sand Creek (variety, 1864)? Was Columbus at Sand Creek? I didn’t think he made it that far inland.
Before Indians were running casinos and selling cigarettes tax-free in North America, they were a stone-age people before the “pale face” came. They had not learned to domesticate animals (except dogs and lamas), they had no written language, they used only stone tools and they had not even yet invented the wheel.
They had never seen a horse, a metal knife, a cart or a plow.
They also commonly practiced slavery, genocide and cannibalism against other tribes. No matter how many times you watch “Dances with Wolves” and “Pocahontas,” it will not change these facts.
In terms of population percentage loss, the worst war we ever fought was King Philip’s War in 1675-76. King Philip was an indian chief (also known as Metacomet) who attacked to oust white settlers from New England. The Indians burned down/destroyed twelve of ninety Puritan towns and attacked forty others (including Providence). The Colonists’ population was small in 1675 and a good percentage of that population was killed in the war (with about 1000 slain out of a population of 52,000, this death rate was nearly twice that of the Civil War and more than seven times that of World War II). The Indians lost the war.
The vast majority of Indians sided with the French in the French And Indian War (1753). The indians lost the war.
The vast majority of Indians sided with the British in the Revolution. The Indians lost the war. Think about that - the Freedoms we have today and the Freedoms the Indians use without shame are the same Freedoms their ancestors fought against.
The vast majority of Indians sided with the British again in the War of 1812. The Indians lost the war.
As the Americans moved west, fighting was constant on both sides. The Indians lost every time.
Indians had lived here for generations before Europeans arrived.
Ok, and then there were the vikings, oh yea and those Caucasian skulls in the northeast found to be generations older than any known “indian tribe” and some Chinese artifacts older still...........
My father-in-law likes to say, “Indians had garbage dumps too. The rouse that they cared for the land is a fairy tale.”
He is Apache/Cherokee descendant.
I think it’s time to kick their asses....again!
Flame away - I’m sick of being PC about this.
I once heard this about the difference between the way Indians and white settlers fought:
The Indians live together, but fight independently;
White settlers live apart from one another, but fight together.
That certainly was the case in King Phillip’s War.
The Indians were called savages for a reason. The worst fate imaginable was to be captured alive. It didn’t matter if you were a man woman or child. Imagine living on the frontier, miles from the nearest neighbor and seeing indians approaching. There were friendly tribes, but from a distance, how do you know which is which. Imagine finding out that your relatives were massacred in such a fashion, you would demand govt action. In many locations, the indians were essentially the terrorists of their day.
Thy will use all peaceful, constitutional means to deny the marchers the right to assemble and to freedom of speech ... ugh?
No wonder these people oppose Christopher Columbus.
“I’d like 10,000 marbles please.”
“The vast majority of Indians sided with the French in the French And Indian War (1753). The indians lost the war.
The vast majority of Indians sided with the British in the Revolution. “
Don’t agree with your statement. At the time of the French and Indian War, did we even know all the Indians tribes in North America or even those west of the Mississippi.
Today the ole glory still belongs to the mighty great plains INDIANS...thanks to Columbus grandson Custer you’ll never take that Victory Away
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