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Posted on 10/09/2003 6:08:11 PM PDT by Bad Eagle
By David Yeagley
I don’t understand why American Indian activists have focused on Christopher Columbus as the symbol of all ill that has befallen Indians of the Americas. It’s a catchy, indigenous trend, and now even Mexicans are complaining about Columbus as they try to identify with “American” Indians.
Mexicans joined American Indians in Denver, back in 1992, along with American Negroes and even Koreans, A clear and severe case of anti-white racism and anti-American, anti-Western ideology. What a glorious inflammation of ill-defined culture ego this crowd must have felt. The Mexican protest against Columbus has developed in recent years. As Mexican Americans identify themselves as “Indians” they feel not only more authentic, but more a part of the American culture, even if it’s the anti-American part. After all, being anti-American is a modern American cultural tradition. Truth is, there’s a lot of confusion in “Hispanic” land over who’s what.
The 1992 Columbus Parade in Denver was cancelled, due to intense Indian harassment of Italian parade planners. Illustrious Leftist champions like the New Jewish Agenda, the Nation of Islam, and the American Friends Service Committee so intimidated the city that the parade was cancelled. Russell Means led out in the protest. Of course, other AIM (American Indian Movement) representatives were there.
Since the 1991 Parade, there was no Columbus Day Parade in Denver. Nine years later, the parade was revived by Italians George Vendegnia and Carl Michael Mangiaracina. Yet, that October 7, 2000 parade was again heavily protested. Then Denver Mayor Wellington Webb spent $100,000 on extra police for that day. Denver’s first Negro mayor did his very best to let everyone be part of the all-American show.
Even so, of the nearly 500 protesters, 147 were arrested—not for violence, but for physically, bodily impeding the parade. Some seemed a little anxious to be arrested, in the name of being Indian. Now that’s an ironic form of courage. Yank BadHand and Greg Holder “stepped forward to be arrested.”
Most of the Indian names in the reports are Sioux, from the north country. This is interesting, because the Sioux had no encounter with Columbus or the Spanish influence. Comanche encountered the Spanish culture, but never saw Columbus.
Protesting Sioux lamented Columbus with the standard dirges: he did not discover America; he put Indians in slavery; he committed genocide, etc. But they added a new one, specially made for Italian Americans. Pansy Hawkwing (Lakota) said, “Italian-Americans followed the American way by breaking their word. They are becoming too American. That's what Americans have done, gone back on their word.”
Columbus never went back on his word. He never gave any word. He was just a front man for Spain, and a risk at that. To class Italians as “Americans” might certainly be considered a back-handed compliment, but these Indians meant it in the worst, racist way.
But combining with racial “minority” groups puts Indians in the worst light possible. For this, I protest their protest. I do not consider Indians just another “minority” group. We are nations, are we not? What happened to the idea of sovereignty, which Indians claim so religiously? To unite with the loose ends of American culture, as if to lead all “oppressed” groups in an anti-American lament or an anti-Western wailing, is a breach of reality, it seems to me.
If Indians are “sovereign” nations, what are we complaining about? Negroes don’t represent a nation. All their spokesmen represent here in America is complaint. They can go back to some place in Africa. If Koreans here have a problem with America, let them go back to Korea, to their own country. If Mexicans can’t figure out who or what they are, let them go back to Mexico.
For Indians to use Columbus as a rally for cultural protest is the most detrimental thing Indians can do for our own image in America. It does not accomplish anything constructive. It breeds racial hatred, social discontent, and weakens every impulse of courage and accomplishment. It is a disservice to our youth, misguiding all their aspirations, and is doing nothing but turning the dominant society against us.
These Indians have forgotten their own war tactics. They have been misdirected by communist racial agitators.
The far wiser tact is to face new enemies, not uselessly, impotently protest the old ones.
The new enemy of the Indian is our own naivete, our own lack of self-discipline, and the communist funded careerists among us, who encourage our helplessness and discontent.
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Not a lot of that in North America. Some, but not a lot.
There was a lot of it in South America though. Lot of it in the rest of the world too. Not in the Egyptian Culture though. I have always wondered about that.
I have yet to hear a good explaination as to why.
There was human sacrifice in parts of pre-Christian Europe, and then the intolerant Christians put a stop to it. We all know how the left idolizes "natural" pre-Christian societies and condemns anything of a Judeo-Christian influence. Every once in a while a European leader is able to throw off this Judeo-Christian influence and return people to a more "natural" way of existence. Adolf Hitler is a case in point -- he took savagery to a new level and introduced human sacrifice at such a scale that the ancient American warrior-priests could not have imagined it.
The indians from the west who took trips to visit Washington DC in the 1800's and saw all the white people and what they built, needed no more convincing as to who would rule this country.
I have yet to hear a good explaination as to why.
Egyptian religion, they felt their bodies were taken to their new home with their gods, to eat the bodies would be sacraligous.
Agricultural cultures wanted favorable weather for a good harvest. Hunter/Gather cultures wanted the strength to catch game
Speak for yourself ;0)
a) major agricultural surpluses from rich land and a variety of staple crops (not corn or potato mono-culture);
b)a wide variety of domesticated and edible animals (besides the turkey and the chihuahua).
Those pyramid builders needed a lot of food, including high-grade protein, and they didn't need to get it from eating each other.
Never seemed to bother any of the other gods. War captives were prized for sacrifice.
And then for muchies afterwards.
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