Posted on 10/10/2015 5:14:01 AM PDT by GonzoII
Nine cities in states across the US have pressed for resolutions to recognize October 12 as Indigenous Peoples’ Day rather than Columbus Day. Eight of those cities passed resolutions in the last two months and three adopted a resolution just this week.
The City Council of Albuquerque, New Mexico voted six to three on Thursday to recognize October 12 as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in a new proclamation:
“Albuquerque recognizes the occupation of New Mexico’s homelands for the building of our City and knows indigenous nations have lived upon this land since time immemorial and values the process of our society accomplished through and by American Indian thought, culture, technology.”
The proclamation noted 500 years of Indian resistance since the arrival of Christopher Columbus and marked the day “in an effort to reveal a more accurate historical record of the ‘discovery’ of the United States of America,” and to “recognize the contributions of Indigenous peoples despite enormous efforts against native nations.”
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Indian Technology
Oooh, can’t wait to see the didplays of basket weaving and fire
To be fair, he didn’t discover this continent. That had already been done, but I think he was a revolutionary Explorer.
Democrat hellholes or democrat liberal elite... No other choices for this level of stupidity...
savages
He probably believes the lying media that say Columbus thought he was in India.
When is Albuquerque going to celebrate Honky People’s Day? What a bunch of racist ***holes.
I’m Indigenous to the US.
How come they’re scrubbing my history?
Not exactly the government but close, eh?
False that The Aztecs and Maya were exterminated and assimilated in 50 years. In spite of the death of many caused by the smallpox, 100 years after the Spanish conquest there were more Indians in territories under the Spanish Crown than before the arrival of the Spaniards according to the German historian Alexander Humboldt.
Queen Isabella the Catholic had such an interest in the well being of the Indians that in “the codicil or appendix to her last will and testament, drawn shortly before her death, she earnestly asked her husband King Ferdinand, her daughter Juana and her son- in- law not to consent in, nor to permit that the Indians, residents of said Indies, whether already conquered or still to be conquered, be aggrieved at all, whether in their persons or their property, but rather that they be well and fairly treated and that, if wronged, you set right any such wrongs...”
“I wasn’t referring to the Indians. Although it does appear they came from somewhere else. I was referring to Lief Ericson. Also there’s evidence in South America of African settlers before then. And of course there’s the fact that Columbus landed in the Bahamas. He quite simply did NOT discover America.”
There is more to discovery than just arriving first. The important part is communicating that discovery to the world. Who cares if Joe Blow walked around on Cape Cod in 1105 but NEVER TOLD ANYONE ABOUT IT.
Columbus simply sailed a ship. Why is Columbus a legitimate hero? He went into the unknown. As much as Neil Armstrong, Columbus stuck his neck out and managed to get back in one piece to his homeland.
Anyone thinking I’m being melodramatic, didn’t read about the El Faro cargo ship lost at sea with all 33 hands during Hurricane Joaquin just a week ago.
Columbus had no idea what he was venturing into. And candy-ass revisionists centuries later think they have the moral high ground to judge this man. He didn’t go seeking native americans, and his adventure into the unknown is the basis of our remembrance of him. Not some politically correct fantasy about Indians dreamed up by lazy-minded academics of our day.
Pages 140-141 (Hardcover) "From Sea to Shining Sea" :
May it please your excellency: at the request of the Seneca Chiefs, I send herewith to your excellency under the care of James Boyd eight packs of scalps cured, dried, hooped and painted with all the Indian triumphal marks of which the following is an invoice and explanation.
No. 1. Containing 43 scalps of Congress soldiers, killed in different skirmishes; these are stretched on black hoops, 4 inches in diameter; the inside of the skin painted red with a small black spot to denote their being killed with bullets; also 62 farmers killed in their houses, the hoops red, the skin painted brown and marked with a hoe, a black circle all around to denote their being surprised in the night and a black hatchet in the middle to denote their being killed with that weapon.
No. 2. Containing 93 farmers killed in their houses . . . white circles and suns to shew that they were surprised in daytime. Black bullet on some, hatchet on others.
No. 3. 97 farmers, hoops green to shew working in fields.
No. 4. 102 farmers. 18 marked with yellow flame to shew that they were burned alive after being scalped. Most farmers appear by hair to be young or middle aged.
No. 5. 81 women, long hair; those braided to shew they were mothers.
No. 6. 193 boy's scalps of various ages, white ground on the skin red tear in the middle.
No. 7. 211 girls scalps, big and little, small yellow hoops marked hatchet, club, knife, etc.
No. 8. Mixture 122 with box of birch bark containing 29 infant scalps small white hoops. Only little black knife in middle to shew they were cut out of mothers body.
Attached note of Seneca to Governor Haldemond [sic]
(IMO, it looks like the Chiefs had a little coaching as to wording.)
Father: We wish to send these over the water to the great king that he may regard them and see our faithfulness in destroying his enemies, and know that his presents have not been made to an ungrateful people.
Father: The kings enemies were formerly like young panthers, they could neither bite nor scratch; we could play with them safely; we feared nothing that they could do to us. But now their bodies are becoming as the elk and strong as the buffalo; they have also got great and sharp claws. They have driven us out of our country for taking part in your quarrel. We expect the great king to give us another country.
“The Story of People Taking Stuff that didn’t originally belong to them, that they in turn had taken from Someone else is called “History”
The one rule throughout human history is that you only own land for as long as you can hold it. Even if your people lived, hunted, or farmed on it for 1000 years, its only yours until someone takes it from you. Then its theirs until you can take it back.
The Bahamas are in North America, part of the American continents—which were then unknown in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and heck, Antarctica. The great Cristoforo didn't discover my hometown, either, but I give him credit getting in the ballpark. The many South American countries that celebrate Columbus Day would also disagree with your contention.
Leif Ericson no doubt did land here, and as I recall, some of the Viking artifacts found in Minnesota are credible. St. Brendan might have been here, and also the Phoenicians, who were amazing sailors. And why should we cheat the aboriginals who were here before the Indians' ancestors crossed the land bridge from Siberia and apparently exterminated them?
The point is that none of these other discoveries "took" for Western consciousness—which now rules the world, no apologies. Columbus made it count. The whole civilized world found out, and there were immediate, world-changing consequences—military, economic, spiritual, genetic . . . Just wow.
It seems to me that if we don't adopt that standard—which is certainly the one recognized since the 16th century—but instead we insist that "discovery" is just the act of getting here, we have to credit some migratory bird, or perhaps an adventurous squid.
I’m going with Vikings :) Although not a random suggestion.
No, not really.
They should call it “National Indian Day.”
Everyone should wear Feathered headdresses, put on war paint and carry tomahawks.
How’bout a “Who ate the Anasazi” day?
Guess i’m indigenous too. I was born here.
Lief Ericson established communication and trade. Really all Columbus did was point out the Americas to Southern Europe at a time when they were extremely interested in colonization. Somebody was going to do it eventually, could have been somebody else 10 years earlier or later, Europe was on that path.
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