Probably was a silly holiday. A tiny island, maybe they could celebrate the landing at Plymouth Rock would be more American.
Isn’t this an appropriations of someone else culture? I thought the left was so against that sort of thing ;)
Oh, wait! Every day these city council members meet is a field day for feces.
The Fact of the Matter is that the Native North American Tribes Were a Stone Age people who didn't even work in Metals or have the Wheel.
Going up against People who created 500 foot tall Cathedrals and Had Guns!
I am not saying that I reveal in the Slow Death Small Pox Brought to the Children of the Natives or that Conquest by the White Man is any more right in the history sense than the Torching of Europe by the Huns. We are simply all people who repeat the same mistakes over and over and over again.
To think that ANY other Culture would have done different is a Fallacy.
What would have happened to the Natives if the Chinese got here first? Or the Koreans? Or Anyone else?
Again people who rode Horses and had Steel Weapons.
Ironically the North American Tribes Lasted Longer than The Central American ones.
The Aztecs and Maya were exterminated and assimilated in 50 years?
But Since the Northerners DIDN'T live in Stone cities had the Open plains to ride the Horses and shoot the guns the White Man Brought.
It took 400 years for the North American Tribes to completely come to end.
If anyone doubts me, look to the Moroccan Conquest of the Songhai Empire.
A powerful and feared Nation who was defeated and brought to heel by the power of a smaller military force who had Guns, where the Songhai did not.
How very un P.C. of the Declaration Of Independence. I'm surprised the liberal bastard whakos haven't changed it yet.
He always seemed like an overrated explorer whose contribution to history was based more in myth and legend than in reality.
I don’t mind getting rid of Columbus Day, because really, he didn’t discover America. But PC BS whining that accompanies this makes me want to keep it.
For those who believe they live on occupied land.......give up your property!
Had the aborigines of what was to become America the political organization and the technology, they would have likewise invaded Europe. Instead they concentrated primarily on warring with, and eating each other.
I do not lament their conquest.
Indigenous peoples in North America, everyone here came from somewhere else, some just sooner than others. Next they’ll be telling me that the indigenous peoples lived in peace and harmony never warring with their brothers, never abused the land and it’s resources, and never ever practiced slavery.
Isn’t that special.
Dishonoring the man who is credited with discovering this continent. Stems from self-loathing.
The NEW WORLD was going to be discovered. If Columbus had not sailed the ocean blue, the NEW WORLD would have still been discovered by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 AD.
“Indians” aren’t indigenous. They are first settlers.
Democrat hellholes or democrat liberal elite... No other choices for this level of stupidity...
savages
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?
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.
They should call it “National Indian Day.”
Everyone should wear Feathered headdresses, put on war paint and carry tomahawks.