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posted by martyb on Sunday October 10 2021, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly

[Ed note: In observance of the US federal holiday which is observed on Monday October 11, 2021, I am inviting the editorial staff to run stories on a weekend schedule tomorrow. Please join me in thanking them for all their hard work and for the sacrifice of their spare time and energy! --martyb.]

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.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @01:25AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @01:25AM (#1186028)

    [Ed note: ...editorial staff

    Let us know when the "editorial staff" actually edit instead of just plagiarizing news articles from other sources.

    [Ed note: In observance of the US federal holiday which is observed on Monday October 11, 2021, I am inviting the editorial staff to run stories on a weekend schedule tomorrow.

    So you mean they'll be posting just a total of one story tomorrow instead of the usual two?

    Please join me in thanking them for all their hard work and for the sacrifice of their spare time and energy! --martyb.]

    You mean all the effort spent harassing aristarchus, right? Because it's obvious there's not much hard work or energy going into actually posting stories. Otherwise more stories would get posted. Direct their efforts to editing (or even plagiarizing) stories instead of aristarchus. The site would be a lot better that way. There's a reason you're way behind on donations. Take a hint.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @01:37AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @01:37AM (#1186034)

      You mean all the effort spent harassing aristarchus, right?

      Wrong. aristarchus spends much effort harassing the staff and other users, wasting everyone's time and energy. aristarchus's effort could be better spent saving the whales, or writing a superior HOSTS file engine.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by shortscreen on Monday October 11 2021, @02:38AM (7 children)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Monday October 11 2021, @02:38AM (#1186050) Journal

    Columbus journeyed to North America in the late 1500s

    Ahem. 1492 was not in the late 1500s.

    • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday October 11 2021, @04:34AM

      by deimtee (3272) on Monday October 11 2021, @04:34AM (#1186069) Journal

      Ha. Someone translated 15th century into 1500's, didn't they.

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    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday October 11 2021, @06:21PM (5 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday October 11 2021, @06:21PM (#1186227) Journal

      Considering how much of the Columbus story is just a pack of lies I wouldn't be surprised if the date was wrong too!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @07:43PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @07:43PM (#1186262)

        What lies? Columbus has been dissected over and over for 500 years, everybody acknowledges his wrongs. Nobody except idiots is lying about Columbus, and many of those may just be ignorant.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @09:31PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @09:31PM (#1186292)

          "Columbus story" is the important bit and it indeed is mostly false as taught in USA schools (at least 15 years ago when I was in school). Columbus is supposed to be awesome because he thought the world was round and everyone else said it was flat. He had the courage to push and push until someone gave him a chance because he knew he was right despite everyone being against them. That is completely false. Everyone knew the world was round. Columbus thought it was significantly smaller than everyone else thus you could sail east and reach China without dying. He was 100% wrong and was extremely lucky America got in his way. Columbus was a complete idiot in that respect.

          That's beside all the evil conquest things he did like sport murdering, enslavement, raping, etc... but that was all sort of standard of most empires at the time so I don't hold those things against him as much. Though none of that is taught in school to kids. History is seen thought the lens of Disney, not reality unless you take the time to look which few people do.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @01:39AM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @01:39AM (#1186340)

            Wow. Where did you go to school to get told the lie version? My schooling was very clear on all of that.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:32AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:32AM (#1186889)

              Ohio

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @08:56PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @08:56PM (#1187106)

                Somehow, I'm not surprised.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @07:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @07:35PM (#1186257)

    Biden's willingness to betray his own race is why the Jews put his reanimated corpse in the white house to begin with.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @12:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @12:21AM (#1186325)

      triggered incel, oh noes the anti-semitic loser said things again

  • (Score: 1) by Well placed aim... on Sunday October 24 2021, @04:23AM

    by Well placed aim... (15614) on Sunday October 24 2021, @04:23AM (#1190022)

    I am so confused! What contributions of the native people is Biden talking about? The ho-chunk casino? The gifts hope next to the arcade, where I can buy a plastic tomahawk, or a chicken feather head dress for my son? Has the entire world gone mad? That list of cities that paved the way replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is a list of the top 5 most bat-shit crazy places in North America! Seattle is burning, and you somehow see wisdom in ANYTHING they do? Hell, I'm a Minnesota resident, and I can assure you, the Ojibwe people are not suffering. Shit, the mystic river band pays their members 70k a month in "percap" money, and they all live in tribalism subsidized housing (approx. avg. home value 425k), and it's all payed for by white gamblers! Holy crap, people, stop being such bleeding heart passes! If you want to scrub the native next doors feet, and kiss his ass, go to it, but for God's sake, and mine, give me E back Columbus Day. Don't flame me. After I write this, I'm going straight to our local casino, Fon-Du-Luth, and giving everyone in the tribe one of my hard earned dollar bills, via the Keno machine. At least I'm helping them to buy tires for that Benz they drive, not just waiving a flag in the air because creepy uncle Joe said to, and then jumping on people like me, for not waiving one, too. The population has lost its mind...

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