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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Another community organizer http://www.taosnews.com/article_f3a88ff6-99bd-11e3-a14e-0019bb2963f4.html
What “wreckage of the past”. We conquered the Indians. That has been done all over the world — including by one Indian tribe to another. There is no such thing as a “Native American”. NO human is native to this continent. Stop putting them on a pedestal. Yes, Andrew Jackson and others were brutal. But so were Indians with each other.
Taos is a leftist enclave. I’m surprised they took this long.
“but had a practical and realistic view of what could and could not be done at the time.”
He was required to follow orders but more than once refused due to the harshness of the orders against the Indians.
“Council member Fritz Hahn said one American Indian activist felt uncomfortable in the park”.....
SO STAY THE HELL OUT OF THE PARK THEN..
top of my list: I am uncomfortable with Obama occupying the White House. Please remove him.
What a very stupid comparison you made.
I'm sure he meant "Native-American" How hypocritical and so politically in-correct
on the part of the certified "community organizer"
“Navajos really dislike Kit Carson”
Carson broke the back of the Navajo tribe when he burned their villages and crops and trapped the tribe in Canyon de Chelly.
By the time winter arrived the tribe was starved into submission, surrendered and agreed to go onto a reservation.
New wrinkle.No one asked the Taos Pueblo Leadership.
Mayor apologizes to Pueblo for ‘very fast’ decision on Kit Carson Park
He has said he supports renaming the park as a way to “unite the community.”
That’s a friggen joke.
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I worked in that park in the 1970’s building some stuff...they could name it “Parke de Woofie” after me if they want
It's not going to change history. I imagine the next move will be to ask the feds to rename the Kit Carson National Forest.
Yes, let's call it the Bodacious Tatas instead. If anyone asks, it's named for a car made in India.
A pair of Bodacious(ly ugly) Tatas!
I lost my train of thought for moment...
Northern New Mexico has been ruined by these carpet bagging a-holes.
He was so concerned about community relations OBTW what are they planning to do with Fritz Hahn with his MS in communist street agitation.
that he failed to dialogue with anyone within the Tribe
especially the Pueblo Governor and War Chief.
Kit Carson's grave in the park?
“Northern New Mexico has been ruined by these carpet bagging a-holes.”
Its certainly not as pleasant and accommodating to the people who have been here hundreds of years as it uses to be, but in all fair respect its New Mexico’s own constitution, laws, and property taxes that are actually doing the harm.
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