Happy Columbus Day! America Celebrates! (updated)

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[SamKnause]

1. Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2. Columbus Day Is Now Indigenous People’s Day in Seattle And Minneapolis

By Rachel Nuwer
October 7, 2014

Next Monday, federal employees and some lucky others will celebrate Columbus Day with a three-day weekend. But in Seattle and Minneapolis, Monday's holiday will be honoring the people on the other side of the New World discovery story.

As the Associated Press reports, the reinvented holiday—dubbed Indigenous People's Day—"celebrates the contributions and culture of Native Americans and the indigenous community" as well as "the rich history of people who have inhabited the area."

Seattle unanimously voted in favor of the change yesterday, but Minneapolis led the charge back in April. (Reuters adds, however, that Hawaii, Oregon and Alaska don't even recognize Columbus Day.) According to Time, those in favor of the switch in Minneapolis felt that it would paint a "'more accurate historical record' of Columbus's 1492 discovery." According to one activist quoted in Al Jazeera, it's a welcome departure from the long-standing celebrations of a "pirate."

read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/columbus-day-now-indigenous-peoples-day-seattle-and-minneapolis-180952958/

[vlakitti]

7. Happy Indigenous Resistance Day!

Copied from a post of the same name in the Socialist Progressives thread today by TBF:

"....However the so-called “discovery” of the Americas caused the worst demographic catastrophe of human history, with around 95 percent of the indigenous population annihilated in the first 130 years of colonization, according to the U.S. Professor of Anthropology Henry Farmer Dobyns – without mentioning the victims from the African continent, with about 60 million people sent to the Americas as slaves, and only 12 percent of them arrived alive...."

Stuff everyone in the US and the Americas should know, for historical knowledge and for context.

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12. "Stuff everyone in the US and the Americas should know"

Americans can't handle the truth

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Yet, we celebrate a seaman who missed his destination by about 9000 miles.

8,895 mi Distance from Florida to Kolkata, West Bengal

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5. ...

[GGJohn]

4. And I'm enjoying a day off with pay.

THANK YOU CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS!!!!!!!

[KamaAina]

6. Leif Erikson was first.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. They would have gladly performed some good old fashioned genocide...

...if they landed in a more populated spot. They were Vikings after all!

[moondust]

9. I wonder if school books

still teach the old Eurocentric "heroic" story of Columbus?

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14. googled and found this ...

http://www.pinterest.com/growinginglory/history-christopher-columbus/

http://www.pinterest.com/leannebh/hs-christopher-columbus-for-kids/

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16. ...

[Arugula Latte]

10. "Bibles, guns, and disease" -- truly a trio of horror!

K&R

[NightWatcher]

11. Hoka hey!

k and r

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. That is SOOOO "me"....

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15. updated

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17. Love the UW photo!

Thanks so much for posting this.

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18. you're welcome Generic Other