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We will soon name things like they do in China: People’s Park #10. Shanghai Railroad Station #2. So on...
Someday the name America is going to be changed.
Wow, we have a Kir Carson Pass here in California. Maybe we can get it re-named for Martin Luther King. Then no one will be able to use it because it will become a Black Ghetto. Or better still, name it after one of the Indian Casino Managers.
Red Willow?
Doesn’t that mean burnished skeeknee people’s?
Taos isen’t really taos, the entire town is overrun by Rich and famous liberals from both the east and west coast. Causing enormous economic and taxation problems for the original locals.
These outsiders who have flooded the Taos new mexico area often say they came because “the mountain” called them or whatever thinking their somehow mystically there. Its a bunch of crock, and you find the same thing in Santa Fe also in northern New Mexico.
He paid his own way to Washington and made their case to the President and Congress. He canvassed the ranchers in New Mexico and got live cattle donated to the reservation.
Once he had helped defeat them, Kit Carson busted his butt for the Indians' welfare...and this is the thanks he gets from them???
A travesty of history!
The ignorance is astounding.
To start with, Kit Carson knew more about the Navajo than they did. With a unit of irregulars, facing a much larger assembly of Navajo warriors, he invented a new military tactic on the fly, and was able to escape with minimal loss.
At the time, the Navajo could field an army, with few disadvantages facing the US army, mostly because they lacked artillery and railroad transport. Horses were much like main battle tanks in that era, and the Navajo had a lot of very good horses.
So Kit Carson, ordered to control the Navajo, reached a very important conclusion: He had one real choice: kill every Navajo horse, or kill every adult male Navajo.
He chose their horses.
In this way, Carson saved thousands of Navajo lives.
Because had they kept their warlike ways, all too soon they would be in combat, not against irregulars, but against the very experienced Union Army, fresh from the Civil War, and lead by General Philip Sheridan.
General Sheridan had rather brutally whipped several major Indian tribes, and had his army fought the Navajo, there would be a heck of a lot of dead Navajo. Even the French army in Mexico, when their forward observers saw Sheridan’s army assemble near the border, suddenly decided that France was a far nicer place to be, so went home. Leaving skid marks.
So Carson was in fact the best thing that ever happened to the Navajo.
Well, they can just eat their poor little pea-pickin’ hearts out over it. Ft. Carson, CO is here to stay.
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Someone please send a war party to Taos NM to disinter old Kit and take his remains back to Nevada where he belongs.
Burn down Taos city hall on the way out.
Thank you.
***on what’s called the “Long Walk.”***
A sort stroll compared to the Cherokee “Trail of Tears”.
By the way, TAOS was not Navajo country. The Indians of TAOS suffered many raids from the Navajos far to the west who often made raids on TAOS.
***said one American Indian activist felt uncomfortable in the park,***
Maybe he is uncomfortable because the ghost of Governor BENT is roaming looking for the descendents of those who killed and scalped him.
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.
“Council member Fritz Hahn said one American Indian activist felt uncomfortable in the park”.....
SO STAY THE HELL OUT OF THE PARK THEN..
I'm sure he meant "Native-American" How hypocritical and so politically in-correct
on the part of the certified "community organizer"
New wrinkle.No one asked the Taos Pueblo Leadership.
Mayor apologizes to Pueblo for ‘very fast’ decision on Kit Carson Park
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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.