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Biden becomes first president to issue proclamation marking Indigenous Peoples' Day:
President Joe Biden issued a proclamation commemorating Indigenous Peoples' Day on Friday, becoming the first US president to do so, the White House said.
"The contributions that Indigenous peoples have made throughout history — in public service, entrepreneurship, scholarship, the arts, and countless other fields — are integral to our Nation, our culture, and our society," Biden wrote in the proclamation Friday. "Today, we acknowledge the significant sacrifices made by Native peoples to this country — and recognize their many ongoing contributions to our Nation."
Biden also marked a change of course from previous administrations in his proclamation marking Columbus Day, which honors the explorer Christopher Columbus. In that proclamation, the President acknowledged the death and destruction wrought on native communities after Columbus journeyed to North America in the late 1500s, ushering in an age of European exploration of the Western Hemisphere.
"Today, we also acknowledge the painful history of wrongs and atrocities that many European explorers inflicted on Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities. It is a measure of our greatness as a Nation that we do not seek to bury these shameful episodes of our past — that we face them honestly, we bring them to the light, and we do all we can to address them," Biden wrote.
More than 100 cities -- including Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco -- and a number of states -- including Minnesota, Alaska, Vermont and Oregon -- have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day, choosing instead to recognize the native populations that were displaced and decimated after Columbus and other European explorers reached the continent. Berkeley, California, was the first city to adopt Indigenous Peoples' Day, in 1992.
Also at Al Jazeera.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:06PM (3 children)
》 I've never heard of such a culture ....... so I wonder what's going to happen to it.
It'll get voted out in 2024 and Trump will make everything great again. Hopefully this time he sends all the SJWs to Guantanamo for their traitorous activities during the interregnum
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:43PM (2 children)
For the shits and giggles, I hope that does happen.
Give us the chance to finally test the 25th Amendment, the Emoluments clause and various other Presidential exception bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:01AM (1 child)
Rightwing mod brigade is here, they laid low for a few weeks then came back when they figured staff was over it.
Aristarchus the prescient, the alt-right has steadily ruined this place with their racist garbage driving off most users.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:37AM
Oh, can it, ari. You aren't "most users". You don't even represent "most users". You should get back in the closet, and stop drawing attention to yourself.