I believe I read FDR made the official proclamation of Columbus Day but not sure what the rationale was.... Even Indigenous Day is funny because this is a U.S. holiday but people want it to celebrate Indigenous People all over the Americas? Hard to unwind this holiday in any intelligent way.... All we do is get a school holiday and bank holiday and some sales
I grew up for a while in the Chicago area (north suburb). There have always (still is) been tensions about Columbus Day in Chicago considering a large number of Indigenous tribes / languages spoken in Chicago. In fact, 175 different Indigenous tribes live in the Chicago area...they outnumber the Italians living in the Chicago area. I grew up with and went to school with a lot of Italians...dated Italian girls. Never saw any racial conflicts between the two groups...most of the tension I saw were between the older generation. Something changed in the 1990s in Chicago between the Italian community and Indigenous community...a change my mother would talk about as a French Catholic. I remember flying back to Chicago in the 90s from South Korea for my best friend (Italian) father's funeral. His father (an Army colonel - retired) had served with my father...the two were best friends too. My friend had a young cousin (teenager) that looked at me and called me Metis after seeing who my mother was. It's not a derogatory word but it is something I had only heard used in Canada for the mixed-race of Indigenous with Europeans. We talked a while and the teen had a strong understanding about the Indigenous and Black Americans who founded Checagou (Chicago) and grew the city with the French fur traders. He talked about how his Italian community doesn't understand the birthright foundation of Chicago that flourish because of the relationships between European French fur traders and Native American trappers. Few history books teach this outside of Chicago but it is history that both my parents (Indigenous South Dakota and French South France) are very proud of that Italians are still learning about in a city called Chicago. Chicago today is still one of the relocation hubs in America for the Indigenous community although most live in the nearby suburbs. More Indigenous people are relocating back to the Chicago area and that could be the reason for the increasing tensions although not racial tensions. Some people think this history is forgotten. I counter via saying it wasn't forgotten...it just was not being taught outside of Chicago and has slowly been growing as more and more Indigenous move back into the Chicago area including southern Illinois. Simply, at least from the viewpoint of Chicago, it's appropriate for Columbus Day to be now called Indigenous People's Day. wrbtrader
Dude, now you are getting into deep history that the locals have never heard about. If you keep on with this, we'll get invaded by the Vikings, AGAIN. And we all know how that works out. Bjork will be the battledrum for the invasion. Ack!
She gets $350K a year to teach one law course at Harvard. Wants to eliminate college debt because "college has become too expensive." The one course she teaches is on bankruptcy. Indian girl got good scam going there. Getting good mileage out of those high cheek bones.
There's a great scene in Geronimo: An American Legend where the the Apache, bent on revenge, come on a settlement and tell the white-eyes to get off Apache land. One settler spouts off, "we make things of this country, there was nothin' here before us, and there'd never be nothin' if we left it to you!" to which the Apache promptly kill them all.
I think you have the wrong movie scene. Actually, a lot of military movies or law enforcement border patrol movies have that scene by using Apache helicopters to surround the enemy as if it was an ambush for the purpose...kill them all. wrbtrader