Posted on 10/10/2021 10:08:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Monday’s federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representative of Italian American history and others horrified by an annual tribute that ignores native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.
Spurred by national calls for racial equity, communities across the U.S. took a deeper look at Columbus’ legacy in recent years — pairing or replacing it with Indigenous Peoples Day.
On Friday, President Joe Biden issued the first presidential proclamation of “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Columbus.
But activists, including members of Native American tribes, said ending the formal holiday in Columbus’ name has been stymied by politicians and organizations focusing on Italian American heritage.
“The opposition has tried to paint Columbus as a benevolent man, similar to how white supremacists have painted Robert E. Lee,” Les Begay, Diné Nation member and co-founder of the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Coalition of Illinois, said, referring to the Civil War general who led the Confederate Army.
Columbus’ arrival began centuries of exploration and colonization by European nations, bringing violence, disease and other suffering to native people already living in the Western Hemisphere.
“Not honoring Indigenous peoples on this day just continues to erase our history, our contributions and the fact that we were the first inhabitants of this country,” Begay said.
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Old, old, very old news.
Only in the minds of the media who insist on inflaming tensions every year over this. Otherwise people could concentrate on addressing modern and real injustices and move on from the past.
I enjoy celebrating Insidious People’s Day.
I say we declare 10/11 to be the official, “I’m offended day.”
Claiming any offence on any other day will be punishable by having to wear a diaper in public.
Native people fought, killed and enslaved one another. There's also the question of whether they were "natives".
Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds
North and South America were first populated by three waves of migrants from Siberia rather than just a single migration, say researchers who have studied the whole genomes of Native Americans in South America and Canada.
“Old, old, very old news”
Only 2 days old. Here that is breaking news!
Why don’t they just change the name to “Let’s Not Give White People Credit For Anything” Day.
Wrong. The left manufacturing division is what it’s all about.
They had to come from someplace.
When you lose, that’s what can happen! Shoulda prepared better! However, that would not have mattered anyway! Ya got yur casinos! Suck it up!
“...others horrified by an annual tribute that ignores native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.”
Pedro Alveres Cabral, sailing for the real Indies got blown off course to the coast of Brazil. This was in 1500, only 8 years after Columbus. And as soon as the ‘native people’ were exposed to European technology and European diseases, they were doomed as a culture and as a people.
It’s sad, but there it is. But of course we shouldn’t let facts get in the way of ‘our truth’, should we?
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No so with some of the rest of the Spanish occupiers.
Not putting the man down, but it is the historical fact.
The Vikings were here way in advance of the rest and no doubt someone else before them.
Tensions exist between the AP and the majority of Americans....
If the American Indians want to grab off a day for celebration there are several great ones to choose from.
June 25, 1876. They won Their last major victory. No one can take it away from them.
Or
August 10, 1680. When the Pueblo Revolt began in which the Spanish were driven out of New Mexico to the Rio Grande.
But n-0-0-o! They think they have to grab off an Italian’s day of discovery that led to them being dragged, kicking and screaming from the Stone Age into the then modern world.
That it is slipping away here is a Bad Thing.
Author fails to mention that Columbus day came about after 11 Italians were lynched in News Orleans.
If an advanced civilization of American Indians had discovered a stone age Europe they would have done the same. Difference is they they would have brought those same European diseases back to the Americas wiping out much of their population.
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