This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
8 Cities That Have Replaced Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples Day
Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,
As tensions boil on the international stage, eight U.S. cities in two months abolished a federal holiday that has long insulted and infuriated the indigenous population and many others — Columbus Day — but that’s not all. These eight cities (including three just last week) then replaced much-maligned October 12 “holiday” with one long overdue: Indigenous Peoples Day.
Here’s the rundown of U.S. cities that decided a brutal imperialist might not be an appropriate figure to celebrate:
1. Albuquerque, New Mexico
In an official declaration of the transformation of the second Monday in October to Indigenous Peoples Day, the city made “an effort to reveal a more accurate historical record of the ‘discovery’ of the United States of America” by recognizing “the occupation of New Mexico’s homelands for the building of our City.” This year, Albuquerque is encouraging businesses and individuals to “reflect upon the ongoing struggles” of the indigenous population “and to celebrate the thriving culture and value” of their societal contributions.
2. Lawrence, Kansas
Haskell University students — representing 151 tribal nations — have been trying since September for implementation of Indigenous Peoples Day. Their endeavor finally paid off on October 6th at a City Commission meeting, where Mayor Mike Amyx announced that in order to observe “that the city of Lawrence was built upon the homelands of the Kansa and Osage people” and that “Indigenous peoples’ intellectual, spiritual, and deep cultural contribution has enhanced the character of the City of Lawrence.”
Haskell Indian Nations University’s Student Senate President Christopher Sindone called the transformation a move toward unity. Expressing surprise, he said, “For them to pass something like this, as a city, from being at Haskell, that’s 180 years of resiliency by Native Americans recognized.”
3. Portland, Oregon
Portland City Council last week announced an outcome tribal leaders had pursued for over six decades: Instead of Columbus Day, by a declaration, October 12, 2015 will be Indigenous Peoples Day. In an interview with local station KOIN-6, tribal chairman of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Reyn Leno, said of the largely symbolic declaration:
“We’ve been here for hundreds of thousands of years, and we’ve been shy about telling our story. I think that has led the public to have a lot of interest in what we do. We’ve been working hard to tell our story and the story of all Native Americans, and this is just one more movement toward getting that accomplished. You can pour all your concrete and lay all your gravel and blacktop, but these are still the lands that our people walked.”
4. St. Paul, Minnesota
In August, St. Paul City Council passed a resolution intended to “reaffirm the commitment to promote the well-being and growth of St. Paul’s American Indian and Indigenous community” by celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day on the traditionally designated second Monday in October.
With language similar to other cities’ resolutions of the holiday, city officials recognize that St. Paul was built “on the homelands of the Dakota people” and that “indigenous nations have lived upon this land since time immemorial.”
5. Bexar County, Texas
On Tuesday last week, the Bexar County Commissioners Court resolved to designate October 12th as Indigenous Peoples Day — a move to be inclusive of Native American history that recently helped the San Antonio Missions garner UNESCO World Heritage status.
City Councilman Ray Saldaña and indigenous advocate Antonio Diaz are now collaborating on a council consideration request to formally bring the same measure before San Antonio City Council.
6. Anadarko, Oklahoma
“The city of Anadarko strongly supports the proposition that Indigenous Peoples Day shall be an opportunity to celebrate the thriving cultures and values of the Indigenous Peoples of our region,” stated Mayor Kyle Eastwood in a mid-September meeting in Anadarko City Hall’s council chambers. Apache, Choctaw, Delaware, Wichita, and affiliated tribe members and leaders attended the reading of the full proclamation to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day — a proposal originally brought by Chamber of Commerce Executive Director and Choctaw Nation member, David Scott.
“We are only able to learn from our past when we learn the facts,” said Eastwood. “I hope this step will be the beginning of our learning from history when it comes to the role indigenous peoples played and still play in the creation of this wonderful country.”
He added this was an opportunity to put past differences aside because “Anadarko does best when we work together.”
7. Olympia, Washington
Replacing that contentious federal holiday’s spot on October’s second Monday, Indigenous Peoples Day will henceforth be celebrated by the City of Olympia, answering a request filed in October last year. An August 17th rally at Heritage Park saw member representation from the Squaxin, Nisqually, Quileute, and Quinault Nations deliver speeches and join in traditional songs to an audience of nearly 150 people standing in support of the measure.
Mayor Stephen Buxbaum’s proclamation, read by Mayor Pro Tem Nathaniel James, in part noted the city’s responsibility to “oppose the systemic racism toward Indigenous People in the United States, which perpetuates poverty and income inequality, and exacerbates disproportionate health, education, and social stability.”
Indigenous Peoples Day is meant to celebrate the contributions of the Squaxin, Nisqually, Quinault, Puyallup, Chehalis, Suquamish, and Duwamish tribal nations and their influence on the city.
The City of Olympia does not recognize or celebrate Columbus Day.
8. Alpena, Michigan
At the beginning of September, Alpena Mayor Matt Waligora proclaimed October 12th would be called Indigenous Peoples Day to facilitate a productive relationship based on mutual respect and trust between the city, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe, and all indigenous people in the region.
The proclamation was to be read during the celebration of the cultural and societal contributions of the area’s indigenous peoples, taking place over what is traditionally Columbus Day weekend, October 9th through the 12th.
* * *
These eight cities follow Minneapolis and Seattle in creating official recognition for Indigenous Peoples Day. Oklahoma City attempted to pass a similar measure unsuccessfully in September, but plan to try again on October 13th — the day after Columbus Day.
»
- 29404 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
The Conquistadors marching to what is now Mexico City cut the vaginas off of local women and mounted them on the peaks of their helmets. Notable is that the Spanish "army" that invaded Mexico consisted of mostly mercenaries, freebooters, adventurers and thugs. It would have been impossible for them to conquer the Aztecs without the willing help of the local natives that were not Aztec, who provided the vast numbers required for such a conquest.
Reminds me of ISIS.
Take a ride along US18 in South Dakota and then tell me about Indigenous Peoples Day.
OR Gallup NM with the Meth crazed toothless Indians aimlessly wandering around the walmart parking lot..
Leif Erikson, Bitchez!
The Norse were here, first.
As for the Natives, the tribes in what eventually became Ontario. NY, and PA were in a constant state of warfare, around the time that the explorers showed up, and that warfare became very intense before the first settlers arrived. The Native tribes knew their trade with the French could become very lucrative, so one after another, tribes which had been around for some time, maybe even centuries, were wiped out by the Seneca and a few other tribes.
The whole 'they were peaceful before paleface came', meme, was blown to bits a long time ago.
Disease killed most of them, unfortunately.
Thank you. The peaceful native horseshit annoys the piss outta me. All our Columbus-Was-A-Genocidal-Rapist-Imbecile crowd need to remember the natives were SAVAGES in every sense of the word.
As far as the Norse being here first, it mattes little. They left. Columbus opened the way up, using new navigational tools in the 15th century equivalent of a NASA operation, going off the edge of their maps in a bold gutsy move to open up the New World.
I live near a lake that has an island called Massacre Island. The story goes that 2 tribes went to war, and the one tribe put all their women and children on the island in hopes that they would be protected there while the men went off to battle. Lo and behold, they were all slaughtered by the victorious tribe.
Those two tribes are still here, one quite a bit larger than the other, and they still dislike each other intensely, despite living in the same small town. I work with a guy who belongs to the bigger tribe, and he says there is still alot of animosity between them, and they battle (verbally now) over everything.
There are roughly 14 tribes in my region. You cannot belong to more than one, if your parents are of different tribes, you must choose to which you want to be a member. Most children take their father's, but lots of people switch to get better benefits.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/columbus_day/4.png
Thanks for the link! Good stuff.
Indigenous Peoples Day? That's so speciesist. I celebrate quadruped mammal day.
Upvoted for new word: Speciesist.
:)
No one has brought up indigenous people's day yet anywhere on ZH. I can see why this might be the case. Trying to feel good about past wrongs by renaming a .gov holiday. I was born here so am I not indigenous as well? It was a couple of weeks ago that I cut the Nez Perce trail of flight towards Canada in Montana and Idaho and really started reading on that to a much finer degree. I grew up near an Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin. The "Trail of Tears" is near where I am now in Minnesota. Bad things happened. Inexcusable things happened.
I had to ask myself if I could ever forgive something like that happening on the US government's accord and my answer to myself was a resounding NO. The more I read and the more I thought about it the angrier I became. I have seen the reservations and I have seen the casinos. I have been through the whole treaty rights shit that was going down in the 80's when I was learning to drive and being asked for papers by the cops when the Natives were spearing.(yes, it did get that bad even back then) I grew up with an "old buck" Ojibwe who substituted for my departed father and he showed my some things that you need to know. My old buck surrogate father passed on July 23, 1987. A man of few words but I have his pre-64 model 94 Winchester sitting right behind me by his gift to me. I have killed a deer with it as well.
I know what happened to the Native Americans and I especially saw a great deal of it two weeks ago. It was an attempt at complete genocide. Even the Russian Mrs M said it must have been brutal and that is a Russian saying this who never says that anyone had it harder than Russians. Think about that. We were forced to cut through Nez Perce reservation land(the current one not the original one) and it is not a thriving place. I probably should not have been there at all yet I was. For all of the casinos and such it is an economic disaster just like it is over in Wisconsin and here in Minnesota.
Being that the federal government did this to these people in the first place why would you want a federal holiday renamed after something something so ambiguous as indigenous people? If I were them, I would petition for no federal holiday at all for Columbus day. Renaming a federal holiday is not going to help correct what was so wrong about what happened. What would my "old buck" say about this crap. I know what he would say and he would say it was bullshit. What would White Bird say? I stood in White Bird Canyon.
In my heart I know that there is hate between the white man and the Native Americans but I want to point out that I am a white native American. I had no ancestors who profited from the theft of their lands or were involved in any killing of any Native Americans. There is no blood on my hands and for sure there is no blood on my wife or children's hands. We are all getting ripped off by our own people and that is the truth. I needed to know for sure and so I went with my own eyes and saw. It is not debatable that which I saw.
I respectfully submit the idea that we eliminate this federal holiday known as Columbus Day/Indigendous People Day in due fairness to all.
Columbus and his buddies were sadistic dickholes. It has nothing to do with being PC. Seems like lots of you formed your opinions after your 1st grade lesson on Columbus, so maybe this cartoon will help- http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
So were the Indians. They were not a bunch of forest hippies. They were murdering assholes who took every opportunity and justification to murder rape and steal. They fought against the settlers in every war that took place on the continent. The forest hippy revisionism is the lie. The indians were royal dicks in their own right.
People forget the Haida people from the Queen Charlotte Islands. They were famous for their long-distance raiding and slaving. They came to WA to rape, steal and pillage from other tribes. These are all well know facts.
I just downvoted you because by saying "the indians" you are painting hundreds of tribes and languages with one brush. Then, I realized that I did it myself in an earlier post where I talked about "Europeans," which also constitute many tribes and languages and cultures.
Columbus did do evil stuff. It is just that simple. Unless someone can make this simple admission without the hysterical need to qualify it, then I don't want to explore the context of those actions with that person.
Why do folks get so intent on qualifying evil actions? I can talk about Columbus's accomplishments without either denying his bafflingly heinous acts nor implying that his accomplishments somehow cancel out those acts.
It is like when someone points out Russia's part in the war against fascism, especially the casualty toll compared to other allied nations, there are inevitably a deluge of comments about the US shipping supplies to Russia or the brutality of Stalin as if by mentioning the enormous sacrifice of the Russian people during that war one is saying at the same time that Stalin's farts smelled like roses. Why can't all these facts exist at the same time? Why the failure to grasp complexity?
Life can be black and white, especially in the moments where everything comes down to one decision, but to seek to force a black and white perception on a complex situation creates a subjectivity so profound that truth is almost impossible to find.
This country is going to cannibalize itself. Every cohesive group is being divided, every wedge is being hammered through. It's happening on the macro all the way down to the family unit. Some of the Native gripes bare a resemblence to ours but it's the divisions will be promoted and utilized.
"Indian policy has been brought down upon the American people, the American people are the Indians of the 21st century...... Welcome to the reservation" -Means
Obama doesn't know how to rule. He doesn't understand the meaning of stability. And if he thinks he is going to swoop in and look like hero when he finally does something, he is wrong. This is the information age and the internet has a long memory. He can't fool anyone. It requires a better man from the start. There is no amount of lying that will save him from his mistakes.
"Every cohesive group is being divided, every wedge is being hammered through. It's happening on the macro all the way down to the family unit."
Make no mistake, that is orchestrated. The statist project is entirely dedicated to the elimination of any mediating institution between the individual and society. Whether it is families, churches or voluntary or fraternal organizations, the ruling elite are dedicated to their elimination, and where they cannot eliminate something, they corrupt or corrode it.
The objective is to make the individual stand naked and afraid against "society", so he will crawl to the last thing that stands between him and "society"-the state-and beg for protection. This also explains while the ruling class wants society to be more violent and disordered, so there's more fotr the individual to fear.
History is written by the victor.
You cant blame a guy for winning, if it wasn't Columbus it would of been someone else.
In anycase whats done is done focus on the future, not a bunch of dead people that are no longer around to care.
The majority of people dont care about the holidays or whats special about them, the majority just care if they have the day off or not so they can spend the night before drinking, anyone who cares beyond that is obsessing over things they have no control over, its in the past, let the past stay dead take the day off and fucking BBQ some hot-dogs.
Holiday? FFS, I worked today. It's only a .gov holiday.
Completely agree about the inane harping of old injuctices.
Who is indigenous? Is there a cut-off date? Am I still foreign even though I am third generation and born here?
So, people in Detroit put an axe into the skull of Columbus's statue while they polish their new statue of Satan. I really didn't need another reason to hate Detroit even more, but alas I have another...
The tribes the Europeans encountered in North America were the remenants of higher cultures that had collapsed. The mound cultures of the upper midwest were as much a mystery to the natives as they were to the Europeans.
This:
mound cultures of the upper midwest
I have seen these "mounds"
These mounds are almost exactly the same as European "barrows" and are the strongest evidence yet that Euro-peoples were here long before the indians.
Good luck trying to study that as a professor, or get a grant though, it's "Racist"
Columbus was a slaver and murderer. Even from europe, the vikings got to America first...and ofc before them lots and lots of asians, who became the native americans. fuker's name needs to be erased from history.
Well, we better get rid of a bunch of other "names" then too. Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Bush, etc...killed hundreds of thousands of "native Americans", whether they were white, black, yellow or red. This country's history is drenched in blood. Good grief, Columbus died over 500 years ago and all of a sudden we see this kind of outrage?
It is ridiculous.
I'm a old white fuck. Glad to be dieing. Called this shit long ago.
Guess they freed all the loonies out of the mental institutions.
They say humans originated from Africa. So does that mean that humans in the Americas are African Americans?
The so called indigenous peoples were pushed out of Asia into North America via the land bridge at the end of the last ice age. Even after ten thousand years, they were still living in the stone age prior to the arrival of far more advanced white western european explorers. Once again we are getting a glimpse of their savage tribal mentality that occasionally escapes out into the open for all to see. Those less evolved feral instincts call them back to the wild because civilization, devoid of human tributes to the gods, does not come naturally for them.
Indeed. We see the same thing playing out in MENA right now. Not all civilizations are equal.
Columbus .... Cristobal Colon .... Kristoff von Koln .... Christopher Cologne .... blond German navigator .... fucked Queen Isabel of Spain .... she grubstaked his voyages .... brought European medicine and agriculture to the New World .... the indigenous population have swollen to half a billion greasers and spear chuckers .... a biological plague on the planet .... and the PC left .... harps about some infected army blankets ?
THe stupidity on this site is legion "the neandrathals evolved....."
I guess they didn't get the memo that Homo Sapiens ended Homo Erectus...or a good dictionary.
They're right of course. Every Native American should be celebrated for discovering America, the land where they originated from. It must have been hard to discover a land they were living on. What with the lack of seawater, perilous journey, fight to fund the expedition, chance of starvation, and just plain risk they deserve to be celebrated.
God I do hate liberals. It's amazing how they call themselves progressives and yet they are anti-progress. If we're going to celebrate indigenous people and they hate Columbus so much than why don't they just go live in the woods for a year and see how wonderful it is to be a Native American. And yes, what happened to the Native Americans was horrible but hammering this into people's heads only serves to divide us rather than unite us. Hell, around fifty years ago the civil rights bill was passed and yet surprise surprise racism is still present in the country on all sides. The war on poverty was started in the 60s as well and the poverty rate has not decreased.
There is one absolute rule of the world. The Strong do what they can and the Weak suffer what they must. It is unfortunate, but it is the truth and only by accepting the good and the bad of history and moving on after learning from past mistakes can we advance as a society. Because when those who wield the largest amount of power decide to no longer keep up the facade or the system comes crashing down reality comes knocking with it. And if history tells us anything there is one reality that is always present and is Irrefutable througout the past:
Vae Victis.
Reuters: Ancient Native Boy's Genome Reignites Debate Over First Americans
"Despite the new study, other experts say the debate over whether the first Americans arrived from Beringia or southwestern Europe, where a culture called the Solutrean thrived from 21,000 to 17,000 years ago, is far from settled."
"They haven't produced evidence to refute the Solutrean hypothesis," said geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University, a leading expert on using DNA to track ancient migrations. "In fact, there is genetic evidence that only the Solutrean hypothesis explains."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/12/us-science-native-americans-or...
Montana Boy: Bones Show Ancestral Links to Europehttp://www.spiegel.de/international/dna-analysis-shows-native-americans-...
So now there's a list of "No Need To Nuke" cities in America.
Unless we do it from our side of the stockpile.
This is what a culture looks like that is committing slow motion suicide. Left is right, up is down, black is white, Debbie has two daddies, etc. Hats off to those social planners that planned all of this destruction and have been patiently working at it for the last 100 years. They're almost there.
The Aztecs were blood thirsty cannibals .... worse than ISIS .... cut out virgins' hearts .... with shards of obsidian glass ?
Mexican indigenous cartel executioners .... cut off heads .... with those curved pruning saws .... that fold into the wooden handle .... much more effective than ISIS using hunting knives with 8 inch blades .... honed on the concrete curb !
Well, I'd like to see any of the wimpy a$$ed pu$$ies that complain all day long about Columbus get in a time machine, go back to 1492, step into his shoes, come up with the outlandish idea to uncover new navigation routes, hop on board the little match boxes they called ships, with one heluva rough crew, not to mention 1492 technology and creature 'comforts' and amenities, get lost, not know where the h*** you are, going seemingly nowhere, after many months, surrounded by mutinous co-sailors, out of food and water, etc etc etc.
Next item. The same ppl who are all up in their man panties, because they are effeminate freaks, that moan and groan about CC, these are the same ppl who will preach all day long about the glories of Darwin, natural selection, survival of the fittest. Life is hardcore. The stronger and smarter win the game. That is the way it f*ing goes on planet earth. The europeans had the guns. They had superior intellect. They had superior technology - all compared to the indigenous ppl.
Had is been the other way around, it would have been an easy undertaking for those who chased down their dinner at night to repulse the 'invaders' from the east.
For whatever alleged 'sin' Columbus and crew may have committed, the bigger picture of a dominant culture who had a better idea what to do with natural resources showed up. It was either get on the train and move forward, or get out of the way.
Today, most anywhere you go on the north and central american continent, european rooted technology dominates. The simpering pansies who want their 'indigenous' ppl day all drove their BMWs to the 'rally'. f* them all. Total a$$wipe hypocrites. to the one guy who lives in the woods that just saw a neighboring freak living the same way, but the freak was from a violent 'tribe' and just ripped off someones scalp, with the blood still dripping from his mouth, OK, whatever, at least he is consistent. But those ppl don't exist. Even the so-called 'indians' just park their butts in their casinos, raking in tax free cash, living in luxury, based on technology their ancestors were too f*ing stupid to develop, and had no intention to either. Apparently, these hypocritical scum like it this way.
In short, Columbus 1, modern American lightweight loser 0.
The stupid Indians could walk across an ice bridge a few miles long .... chased by polar bears .... but, they lacked the navigational skills to discover Europe ?
While Withey did some devious things, there is no such thing as a noble savage. Incas and Aztecs were brutal, that is why indigenous tribes collaborated with the conquistadores to fight the Incas. Of course, that backfired on them. What would have happened if the situation was reverse and the Incas had ships and guns and made their way to Europe? In Africa they have been enslaving and killing eachother for millenia. Arabs were more involved in slave trade (also enslaving withes) than Europeans. You can't say all of course because then you are a withe supremacist. The point is, conquest and enslavement is bad whoever does it. But it is the worst when Withey does it of course. Oh, and all the bashers of the West do like to use their inventions suh as smart phones, cars, television, computers, antibiotics, x-ray machines, etc. If withey is so bad it would be hypocritical to use their inventions.
“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't know how I should interpret this to my comment. Perhaps you can elaborate.
Of course Nietzsche own morality of Über- and Untermensch was misused by the Nazis for their own morality.
Isn't Nietzche the guy that declared God to be dead until he died?
It always seemed weird that we had a national holiday dedicated to a serial killer. Why don't we have a Ted Bundy Day or a John Wayne Gacy Day?
Columbus had quotas for gold production. If people didn't give the required amount of gold, their hands would be cut off.
next they will change independance day to safe and secure day
Were they paid? This is Nez Perce in this case.
http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/treaties/np63.htm
I can't find any record of payment so how did that work? So a hundred and fifty years later the payment is a federal holiday? That is so wrong.
Why would we celebrate the weak and the vanquished? Why not call it "Conquered Peoples Day"?
Meh, another helping of Cultural Marxism... If you follow history, Columbus was a total douchebag. He was cross between a used car salesman and elon musk who had absolutely NO navigational skills. Now if it was "Magellan Day" they were replacing with indigenous peoples day, that would bother me. He was an excellent navigator/captain.
So Asians got here maybe 300-400 centuries before Europeans. So what? That's like yesterday. There is no such thing as 'native' - it just means 'first'. The Asians were slaughtering each other over the lands until the Europeans showed up and out-laughtered them. It's how humans roll.
"The Asians were slaughtering each other over the lands until the Europeans showed up and out-laughtered them."
But its ok if you kill your own kind. Hence Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin are martyrs, the thousands slaughtered on the streets of Chicago and Detroit are statistics.
"Man on the moon day" should supplant Columbus Day. For years, I have been saying that any President could champion this move and garner public support. First, Columbus Day is disputed whereas the moon landing by the US is indisputable. Second, since the dawn of man and until the end of man, humans gaze at the moon and its distance. It is a primative connection that every human on this planet shares (unlike the regard for Columbus). The landing by the US is one of mans greatest achievements. It would be such a gimme for any President and I'm truly surprised not one has seen this.
"the moon landing by the US is indisputable."
Satire? If so, this is MDB_ quality. You almost had me until that.
Greenie!
Columbus Day. A national holiday signed into law by that great American fascist, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Yeah, Columbus Day is right up there with Thanksgiving, a fake-ass holiday created in no small part to boost the Union's faltering war effort by the master war ciminal himself, Lincoln.
I bet they're all "sanctuary cities" where criminal invaders are protected and subsidized at the local native's expense for the benefit of 1 certain eastern EU tribe.
What's next?
Breaking the crosses off of war memorials?
Columbus Schlamubus (re: discovering 'Murica)
Not down voting "Chris", interesting fellow; times. Holiday by Olde Hallmarciots
Explorers of America*
YEAR
70,000? B.C.- 12.0007 B.C.
6000? B.C.- 1500? B.C.
5000? B.C.
10,000? B.C.- 600? B.C.
9000? B.C. to present
1000 B.C.
1000 B.C.- 300 A.D,
BOOB.C.
600 A.D.
1000-1350
1311?-1460?
c. 1460
1375?-1491 1481-91 1492
FROM TO SiUeria Alaska
Indonesia South America (or other direction)
QUALITY OF EVIDENCE
High: the survivors peopled the Americas.
Moderate: similarities in blowguns, pa per making, etc.
Moderate: similar pottery, fishing styles.
High: Navajos and Crees resemble each other culturally, differ horn other Indians.
High: continuing contact Oy Inults across Bering Sea.
Low. Chinese legend; cultural similarities.
Moderate: Negroid and Caucasoid likenesses in sculpture and ceramics, Arab history, etc.
Low. megaliths, possible similarities in script and language.
Low: legends of St. Brendan, written C. 850 A.D., confirmed by Norse sagas.
High: oral sagas, conf rmed by archaeology on Newfoundland.
Moderate: Portuguese sources in West Africa, Columbus on Haiti. Balboa in Panama.
Low: inference from Portuguese sources and actions.
Low: cryptic historical sources. Low: cryptic historical sources. High: historical sources.
Japan Siberia
Siberia
China
Afro-Phoenicia
Phoenicia, Celtic Britain
Ireland, via Iceland
Greenland, Icelard
West Africa
Portugal
Basque Spain Bristol, England Spain
Ecuador
Canada. New Mexico
Alaska
Central America Central America
New England, perhaps elsewhere
Newfoundland? Weal Indies?
Labrador, Baffin Land, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, possibly Cape Coo and further south
Haiti, Panama, possibly Brazil
Newfoundland? Brazil?
Newfoundland coast Newfoundland coast
Caribbean, including Haiti
*src/ref~ J. Loewen
It's so weird that we take every bad action that ever happened and go back and ascribe it to a single individual who did nothing more than look for a trade route to India and discovered a new continent. Instead of celebrating this spirit of adventure and discovery, we taint it with every atrocious action since committed in the name of greed and politics hence.
Political Correctness is so distorted and obviously corrupt, how did we ever get to where it determines our actions. It is no longer what I think and intend, but whatever some arbitrary third party believes are my thoughts behind the action? How very Minority Report.
When Columbus first landed on Hispaniola in 1492, virtually the entire island was covered by lush forest. The Taino "Indians" who lived there had an apparently idyllic life prior to Columbus, from the reports left to us by literate members of Columbus's crew such as Miguel Cuneo.
When Columbus and his crew arrived on their second visit to Hispaniola, however, they took captive about two thousand local villagers who had come out to greet them. Cuneo wrote: "When our caravels... where to leave for Spain, we gathered...one thousand six hundred male and female persons of those Indians, and these we embarked in our caravels on February 17, 1495...For those who remained, we let it be known (to the Spaniards who manned the island's fort) in the vicinity that anyone who wanted to take some of them could do so, to the amount desired, which was done."
Cuneo further notes that he himself took a beautiful teenage Carib girl as his personal slave, a gift from Columbus himself, but that when he attempted to have sex with her, she "resisted with all her strength." So, in his own words, he "thrashed her mercilessly and raped her."
While Columbus once referred to the Taino Indians as cannibals, a story made up by Columbus - which is to this day still taught in some US schools - to help justify his slaughter and enslavement of these people. He wrote to the Spanish monarchs in 1493: "It is possible, with the name of the Holy Trinity, to sell all the slaves which it is possible to sell...Here there are so many of these slaves, and also brazilwood, that although they are living things they are as good as gold..."
Columbus and his men also used the Taino as sex slaves: it was a common reward for Columbus' men for him to present them with local women to rape. As he began exporting Taino as slaves to other parts of the world, the sex-slave trade became an important part of the business, as Columbus wrote to a friend in 1500: "A hundred castellanoes (a Spanish coin) are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand."
However, the Taino turned out not to be particularly good workers in the plantations that the Spaniards and later the French established on Hispaniola: they resented their lands and children being taken, and attempted to fight back against the invaders. Since the Taino where obviously standing in the way of Spain's progress, Columbus sought to impose discipline on them. For even a minor offense, an Indian's nose or ear was cut off, se he could go back to his village to impress the people with the brutality the Spanish were capable of. Columbus attacked them with dogs, skewered them with pikes, and shot them.
Eventually, life for the Taino became so unbearable that, as Pedro de Cordoba wrote to King Ferdinand in a 1517 letter, "As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth... Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery."
Eventually, Columbus and later his brother Bartholomew Columbus who he left in charge of the island, simply resorted to wiping out the Taino altogether. Prior to Columbus' arrival, some scholars place the population of Haiti/Hispaniola (now at 16 million) at around 1.5 to 3 million people. By 1496, it was down to 1.1 million, according to a census done by Bartholomew Columbus. By 1516, the indigenous population was 12,000, and according to Las Casas (who were there) by 1542 fewer than 200 natives were alive. By 1555, every single one was dead.
If you would like to know more, please download my book entitled:
"Secrets of wealth creation revealed"
I stand politically corrected.
Instead let us name it indigenous day because they only made war on each other simply for being from different tribes (lord knows there was enough room for everyone by any stretch of the imagination); took slaves; tied captured members of other tribes to stakes so that women and children could practice torturing them; took scalps as trophies;blah blah blah.
If you would like to know more, please download MY book entitled;
"The selective blind eye of political correctness" OR "How we should all live in a more savage time with death at 30 from tubercular lungs"
"took scalps as trophies;blah blah blah"
You must be a day trader.
On a more serious note. There was a battle between the Taino and the Spaniards which you convenientlly left out. What happens to a defeated people that don't fit into the worldview of an ardent Catholic dogma? They are not human. they become chattel, a resource to be expoloited. This has happened everywhere over the centuries, even among so-called indigenous people.
Anyway, there is this:
After Columbus had returned to Europe and word of his discoveries reached the royal courts of Portugal and Spain, there were heated debates over the ownership of the new lands. Pope Alexander VI stepped in to solve the dilemma. Papal bulls by Pope Alexander VI granted Spain and Portugal all of the lands in the Americas which were not under Christian rule. Thus began the European assumption that the native people of the area did not really own the land because they were not Christian. The Pope decreed that
The Inter Caetera papal bull by Pope Alexander VI stated:
This laid the legal foundation for assuming that government comes only from the Christian god and therefore Christian nations have a legal right to rule over non-Christian nations. The late Vine Deloria in his “Afterword,” for America in 1492: The World of Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus wrote:
The discovery of Indians presented some problems for Europeans since they were not mentioned in the Christian Bible: the Native Americans did not fit within orthodox Christianity’s explanation of the moral universe.
We all learn something new every day. How's that saying go? "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.", or something like that.
The SECULAR world mistakes Roman Catholicism for Christianity; they are contrary to each other. At least make a mental note of that. If you need proof, ask someone you know is a practicing Catholic and ask them what they are; 95 of 100 will say "I am Catholic" as opposed to I am a "Christian". They make this mistake simply because they have been told that and assume it is true just as many of us go on many issues. Global warming is a good one.
Here is what one Pastor said abut global warming and is quite funny imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I4mtpocA48 (2min)
Longer version and worth listening to.
John MacArthur on Cal Tech and the Global Warming HoaxHere a scientist of Cal Tech describes & explains how it is consensus science, which is a way to shut down debate and real science..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTlYl8E_B14 (13 min)
There are some within Roman Catholicism that are Christians; albeit very weak, who see through circus side-show. The vicar of Christ is the Holy Spirit; He alone represents Christ. It is why Jesus told His disciples that it is good for Him to leave so He could send the "Helper", which is the 3rd person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.
I'd like also to point out that there is a difference between Christianity and Religon.
Religon is a man made institution with all the attendent shortcomings and flaws resident in a human being.
Christianity is perfection.
"The SECULAR world mistakes Roman Catholicism for Christianity"
Actually, much of the world mistakes the pseudo-Christianity of Martin Luther and Henry Tudor for Christianity.
You wanna see Luther's legacy? A lesbian female "Bishop" wanting to strip "her" Churches of Crosses and install prayer spaces to make the Muslim invaders feel comfortable.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/05/worlds-first-lesbian-bishop-c...
Political Correctness stifles all things good and that is the goal and we all contribute our part because it is in our DNA.
the only thing in your dna is incest and asperger
the logical consequence of such funny tendencies would be to end up renaming America
See? Communism at work!
Why not "America Day" or something like that?
The mafia will fix this shit.
Bunch of nonsense and revisionist history. Most Indians lived peacefully and traded land with the colonies. Those indians that didn't were exterminating indian tribes and families.
Yea. And the Africans shipped over where out of work anyway.
'On Page 126, a caption in a section about immigration referred to Africans brought to American plantations between the 1500s and 1800s as “workers” rather than slaves.'
Shouldn't the PC crowd be celebrating Chris Columbus as the first illegal immigrant to the Americas?
and doesn't this indicate that illegal immigration is a very bad thing?
Also, although he was Italian, he was acting as an agent of Spain. Spain and Portugal took the riches from the Americas and only left their language.
Any distraction will do. As long as we don't realize it is the servants that are fucking us over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7BIaaxGAU
Why not? Columbus did not discover America anyway. So who cares if a myth is being corrupted?
If you do not get it, then why are you on ZH?
BRAVE NEW WORLD for the next generation.
Not to diminish the suffering of Native Peoples, but the exchange between the Eastern and Western hemisphere was the biggest driving factor in world growth and demographic change for over 4 centuries. The European explorers of the age of exploration faced unbelievable dangers and privation. I don't like the new evil conqueror / white guilt narrative very much. I think it would be better to recognize historical inevitability and the enormous effects in human history of the Columbian Exchange.
South Africa is the model for America's future.
and sweden is the model for europe
The story told in schools now is that the native americans of the Eastern US, because the western US has always been sparsely populated, even by the natives, were EXTERMINATED.
And that is simply a lie.
They were, with a few exceptions such as the Lumbee, ASSIMILATED.
When the French and Indian Wars were fought in the 1750's the settlers and Natives had intermarried so much (as you'd expect since the newcomers didn't bring many women) that the 'Indians' often had red hair, blue eyes, and answered to names like "Morning Hawk McClelland". The war was between the French and English crowns. The natives fought on both sides. And as mentioned, the English had advantage not only in formal numbers, but also because they had a strong presence within the native tribes.
Many of the 'white' people whose anscestors were here 250 years ago are at least as native as those who now claim to be the sole natives.
The number of comments on this thread that echo respect for the winners and disdain for the losers is shocking on a site full of losera (us commoners) loathing winners (elite)
You are hereby notified that American citizens, this includes Canada, will no longer be allowed to celebrate individual birthdays. Birthdays are forbidden, bakeries must comply or be shuttered. That is all...
Wake me up when these Indigenous People Day asshats turn their land and homes [and political power] over to the American Indians.
Until then they are simply called "hypocrites".
For all of the butthurt Jews and goyim on this thread:
Was Columbus secretly a Jew?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/opinion/garcia-columbus-jewish/
Excuse me, I've been conditioned to believe all immigration is good immigration...unless you're a racist.
Oh Albuquerque City Council, you embarass me.
I have so many great memories of Albuquerque, New Mexico. On my first trip there the city bus made an emergency stop in the middle of the road. Only so they could throw a drunk Indian woman off the bus. The drunk woman then took off her high heels and started beating my rental car with her shoes... The rental car company did not charge me for the damage after I told them the story. Welcome to Albuquerque.