Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

[Anonymous]

So many fail to acknowledge the horrors indigenous people did to other indigenous people and to others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many fail to acknowledge the horrors indigenous people did to other indigenous people and to others.

But we don’t have a holiday specifically celebrating them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Columbus discovered America. Get over it.

Just like I discovered Nordstrom’s!
Seriously, anyone who is pro-Columbus should read his journals. He was a Class A Awful Person. Really, even by the standards of his time, an enormous asshole.

Journals "transcribed" by Bartolome de las Casas.

"All existing copies of the journal are based on the journal's abstract – a manuscript of 76 folios discovered later in the library of the Duke of the Infantado by Martín Fernández de Navarrete.[2] The manuscript was kept in the Biblioteca Nacional de España until about 1925 when it was reported as missing.[2] Navarrete reported the discovery of the journal's abstract to his friend, Juan Batista Muñoz who used it in his Historia del Nuevo Mundo published in 1793.[citation needed] In 1825, Navarrete published the abstract with expanded abbreviations, spelled out numerals, corrected punctuation and modernized spelling.[2] All editions of Navarrete's copy since 1825 differ to some extent from the las Casas copy, which was published in 1962 as a facsimile by Carlos Sanz. In 1892, an edition of Navarrete's copy was published by Italian scholar Cesare De Lollis with critical apparatus.

Bartolomé de las Casas did not have the original journal either and ordered a scribe to make a copy of the journal's abstract discovered by Navarrete."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about Happy Give Back the Land to the Indigenous People Day— and then give them back their land. We are colonizers, occupiers and oppressors. If we really want to do the right thing, we should give back the land.

Sure, let’s have every peoples or nation that ever conquered or stole land give it back to whoever had it before they did until we get back to the dawn of humans. Good luck with that.
Also, where should we go? What if we have ancestors from multiple continents?

[Anonymous]

This is a fascinating opinion piece that also explains the origin of Columbus Day:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html?searchResultPosition=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about Happy Give Back the Land to the Indigenous People Day— and then give them back their land. We are colonizers, occupiers and oppressors. If we really want to do the right thing, we should give back the land.

Sure, let’s have every peoples or nation that ever conquered or stole land give it back to whoever had it before they did until we get back to the dawn of humans. Good luck with that.
Also, where should we go? What if we have ancestors from multiple continents?

Thanks for making my point.

[Anonymous]

I'm an indigenous person. I was born here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

A child sex slaver:

“A hundred castellanoes 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 are now in demand.”

Dude was imprisoned for how bad he was.

The Mayans, Inca and Aztec all say "hold my beer!", then proceed to cut the beating hearts out of child sacrifices and eat them atop their Zigurats while praying to the Sun god.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many fail to acknowledge the horrors indigenous people did to other indigenous people and to others.

But we don’t have a holiday specifically celebrating them.

We do now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

A child sex slaver:

“A hundred castellanoes 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 are now in demand.”

Dude was imprisoned for how bad he was.

The Mayans, Inca and Aztec all say "hold my beer!", then proceed to cut the beating hearts out of child sacrifices and eat them atop their Zigurats while praying to the Sun god.

+1. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Woo hoo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many fail to acknowledge the horrors indigenous people did to other indigenous people and to others.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many fail to acknowledge the horrors indigenous people did to other indigenous people and to others.

This

Not true. Well aware. So many fail to acknowledge the horrors white people did and had no business doing becasue "we are so much better, smarter and advanced".
How did we do any of it if we knew better? Zero killings should've come from us. The diseases brought were enough.

[Anonymous]

Give back your land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many fail to acknowledge the horrors indigenous people did to other indigenous people and to others.

This

Not true. Well aware. So many fail to acknowledge the horrors white people did and had no business doing becasue "we are so much better, smarter and advanced".
How did we do any of it if we knew better? Zero killings should've come from us. The diseases brought were enough.

Every single human being on this earth who is living or who has ever lived is flawed. Every. single. one.

Probably the BEST solution would be to not celebrate any of them. Right?

That is where we are headed. No GW birthday. No MLK day. No Kennedy Center. No Lincoln Memorial.
We can dig up sins of each one of these from the past. So, let's focus on alll the wrongs they did instead of the achievements they made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give back your land.

You first.