Native American Activists Ramp Up Push To Rebrand Columbus Day

[Kondor3]

Founding Day for Nova Europa...

Happy Columbus Day !!!

Thanks, Chris !

 

[Lakhota]

Happy Columbus Genocide Day! Does anyone feel stupid for celebrating someone who never set foot in North America?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Happy Columbus Genocide Day! Does anyone feel stupid for celebrating someone who never set foot in North America?

Columbus is the symbol of the dawning of the greatness of this hemisphere. It's not the person himself, but what was put in motion, and it's great to celebrate how the world was transformed ! !

 

[peach174]

"The fact that America would honor this man is preposterous."

NEW YORK, Oct 9 (Reuters) - About four miles from the world's largest Christopher Columbus parade in midtown Manhattan on Monday, hundreds of Native Americans and their supporters will hold a sunrise prayer circle to honor ancestors who were slain or driven from their land.

The ceremony will begin the final day of a weekend "powwow" on Randall's Island in New York's East River, an event that features traditional dancing, story-telling and art.

The Redhawk Native American Arts Council's powwow is both a celebration of Native American culture and an unmistakable counterpoint to the parade, which many detractors say honors a man who symbolizes centuries of oppression of aboriginal people by Europeans.

Organizers hope to call attention to issues of social and economic injustice that have dogged Native Americans since Christopher Columbus led his path-finding expedition to the "New World" in 1492.

The powwow has been held for the past 20 years but never on Columbus Day. It is part of a drive by Native Americans and their supporters throughout the country, who are trying to rebrand Columbus Day as a holiday that honors indigenous people, rather than their European conquerors. Their efforts have been successful in several U.S. cities this year.

"The fact that America would honor this man is preposterous," said Cliff Matias, lead organizer of the powwow and a lifelong Brooklyn resident who claims blood ties with Latin America's Taino and Kichwa nations. "It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever."

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Why would America honor such a man? It's like celebrating genocide. Columbus Day is not a happy day for Native Americans.

Native American Genocide

Lets just forget about Native American tribes that wiped out other tribes and was constantly warring over hunting grounds.
The stronger tribes exercised their control over the more fertile areas. Not only did these tribes compete for food but also it became common practice to raid one another for women and slaves. Inbreeding in many tribes was a severe problem and child mortality rates were extremely high.

When Lewis a Clark explored through North America, many of the tribes welcomed the alliance with the "Americans" for the purpose of weapons to extract vengeance upon the various tribes that had harassed them in the past.
But we will just forget about these facts eh?

 

[Lakhota]

People Claiming #ColumbusWasAHero Are On The Wrong Side Of History

Columbus' legacy is on its way out. #RightSideOfHistory

Christopher Columbus was a cruel colonizer who enslaved thousands of people and decimated the native populations he met. He killed, raped and plundered his way through the New World but his story has given rise to pervasive myths, like that he proved the Earth is round.

A handful of cities, including Seattle and Minneapolis, have already ousted the holiday, which was established in 1968, in favor of "Indigenous Peoples Day," and more cities are following suit.

Columbus' legacy is on its way out and a half-hearted hashtag -- which is mostly populated by white supremacists with a tenuous grasp on history -- is the best indicator of it.

People Claiming #ColumbusWasAHero Are On The Wrong Side Of History

Are schools still teaching that this brutal idiot discovered America? He never set foot in North American.

 

[HenryBHough]

If the crew had had their way none of this would have happened!

 

[peach174]

People Claiming #ColumbusWasAHero Are On The Wrong Side Of History

Columbus' legacy is on its way out. #RightSideOfHistory

Christopher Columbus was a cruel colonizer who enslaved thousands of people and decimated the native populations he met. He killed, raped and plundered his way through the New World but his story has given rise to pervasive myths, like that he proved the Earth is round.

A handful of cities, including Seattle and Minneapolis, have already ousted the holiday, which was established in 1968, in favor of "Indigenous Peoples Day," and more cities are following suit.

Columbus' legacy is on its way out and a half-hearted hashtag -- which is mostly populated by white supremacists with a tenuous grasp on history -- is the best indicator of it.

People Claiming #ColumbusWasAHero Are On The Wrong Side Of History

Are schools still teaching that this brutal idiot discovered America? He never set foot in North American.

So we are starting to trade one colonizer who enslaved and killed with the Indigenous Peoples who did the same thing with other tribes.
What is the difference?
The world was a violent place back then.

 

[Rotagilla]

WTF happened to changing the name Redskins? That was way more fun than this.

Fun? It's about justice - not fun.

 

[peach174]

People Claiming #ColumbusWasAHero Are On The Wrong Side Of History

Columbus' legacy is on its way out. #RightSideOfHistory

Christopher Columbus was a cruel colonizer who enslaved thousands of people and decimated the native populations he met. He killed, raped and plundered his way through the New World but his story has given rise to pervasive myths, like that he proved the Earth is round.

A handful of cities, including Seattle and Minneapolis, have already ousted the holiday, which was established in 1968, in favor of "Indigenous Peoples Day," and more cities are following suit.

Columbus' legacy is on its way out and a half-hearted hashtag -- which is mostly populated by white supremacists with a tenuous grasp on history -- is the best indicator of it.

People Claiming #ColumbusWasAHero Are On The Wrong Side Of History

Are schools still teaching that this brutal idiot discovered America? He never set foot in North American.

He was the one who discovered that there was a new continent to the Europeans.
John Cabot (who by the way was also Italian) came right after Columbus in 1492 and claimed most of the East coast of North American lands for the English in 1497.

 

[peach174]

WTF happened to changing the name Redskins? That was way more fun than this.

Fun? It's about justice - not fun.

What Justice?
The world was violent back in the 15th and 16th centuries including the Natives.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Just think 20 years from now people are going to laugh at us for calling it Columbus day. It'll be looked at like blood letting and the witch trials

 

[peach174]

Just think 20 years from now people are going to laugh at us for calling it Columbus day. It'll be looked at like blood letting and the witch trials

Yep more dumbing down of Americans and whitewashing of our actual history.

 

[Lakhota]

Columbus was so dumb that when landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in India - so he called the natives Indians. That is sadly funny. So, Indians are called Indians because of an idiot who never set foot in North America.

 

[peach174]

Columbus was so dumb that when landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in India - so he called the natives Indians. That is sadly funny. So, Indians are called Indians because of an idiot who never set foot in North America.

Indians are called Indians because the English and Spanish could not pronounce the tribal names correctly.
Same thing happened when we became America when Europeans arrived they made their names more American because they could not spell or pronounce the names correctly.

 

[Lakhota]

Columbus was so dumb that when landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in India - so he called the natives Indians. That is sadly funny. So, Indians are called Indians because of an idiot who never set foot in North America.

Indians are called Indians because the English and Spanish could not pronounce the tribal names correctly.
Same thing happened when we became America when Europeans arrived they made their names more American because they could not spell or pronounce the names correctly.

Do you have any "credible" proof to back up your claims?

 

[peach174]

Columbus was so dumb that when landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in India - so he called the natives Indians. That is sadly funny. So, Indians are called Indians because of an idiot who never set foot in North America.

Indians are called Indians because the English and Spanish could not pronounce the tribal names correctly.
Same thing happened when we became America when Europeans arrived they made their names more American because they could not spell or pronounce the names correctly.

Do you have any "credible" proof to back up your claims?

My own family name was, from my Grandparrents who were born in Germany.
The Americanization of many immigrant families' surnames was for the most part adopted by the family after the immigration process, or by the second or third generation of the family after some assimilation into American culture. However, many last names were altered slightly due to the disparity between English and other languages in the pronunciation of certain letters of the alphabet this is well known and documented.

 

[Anathema]

Columbus was so dumb that when landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in India - so he called the natives Indians. That is sadly funny. So, Indians are called Indians because of an idiot who never set foot in North America.

Would you rather we called them what they should have been by 1890 - Extinct or Corpses?

 

[Lakhota]

Columbus was so dumb that when landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in India - so he called the natives Indians. That is sadly funny. So, Indians are called Indians because of an idiot who never set foot in North America.

Indians are called Indians because the English and Spanish could not pronounce the tribal names correctly.
Same thing happened when we became America when Europeans arrived they made their names more American because they could not spell or pronounce the names correctly.

Do you have any "credible" proof to back up your claims?

My own family name was, from my Grandparrents who were born in Germany.
The Americanization of many immigrant families' surnames was for the most part adopted by the family after the immigration process, or by the second or third generation of the family after some assimilation into American culture. However, many last names were altered slightly due to the disparity between English and other languages in the pronunciation of certain letters of the alphabet this is well known and documented.

That's swell, but we're talking about Columbus. Try to focus.

 

[Lakhota]

Columbus was so dumb that when landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in India - so he called the natives Indians. That is sadly funny. So, Indians are called Indians because of an idiot who never set foot in North America.

Would you rather we called them what they should have been by 1890 - Extinct or Corpses?

Should have called them Victims.

 

[peach174]

Columbus was so dumb that when landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in India - so he called the natives Indians. That is sadly funny. So, Indians are called Indians because of an idiot who never set foot in North America.

Indians are called Indians because the English and Spanish could not pronounce the tribal names correctly.
Same thing happened when we became America when Europeans arrived they made their names more American because they could not spell or pronounce the names correctly.

Do you have any "credible" proof to back up your claims?

My own family name was, from my Grandparrents who were born in Germany.
The Americanization of many immigrant families' surnames was for the most part adopted by the family after the immigration process, or by the second or third generation of the family after some assimilation into American culture. However, many last names were altered slightly due to the disparity between English and other languages in the pronunciation of certain letters of the alphabet this is well known and documented.

That's swell, but we're talking about Columbus. Try to focus.

I answered your question.