OP-ED Descendants of Blacks Enslaved By Native Americans Push Back On Renaming Columbus Day

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Descendants Of Blacks Enslaved By Native Americans Push Back On Renaming Columbus Day

A county commissioner in Illinois is resisting the renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day because of Native Americans owning slaves
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Descendants of Blacks Enslaved By Native Americans Push Back On Renaming Columbus Day

CHRISTOPHER TREMOGLIE
CONTRIBUTOR
May 27, 2021

A county commissioner in Illinois is resisting the renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day because of the documented history of Native Americans owning slaves, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday.

Stanley Moore, Cook County Commissioner, stated that before any vote could take place on renaming the holiday, Native American tribes should acknowledge their history of owning slaves, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Moore’s statements were made as the Cook County Board discussed renaming Columbus Day at a meeting on Monday. (RELATED: Chicago Public Schools Will Observe Indigenous People’s Day Instead Of Columbus Day, Board of Education Decides)

Moore also brought attention to alleged discrimination of Choctaw Freedman by many of the Native American tribes in the country, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

“They are discriminating against us, and if they do not want to recognize the Freedmen and their descendants, they should no longer accept nor receive federal taxpayers’ dollars based upon the census population of the Freedman,” Moore said in a statement.

Some of the Native American tribes owned black slaves in the 19th century. These slaves, known as Freedmen, are not recognized by many of the tribes that enslaved their ancestors.

Moore’s voice has joined others who have questioned renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day after pointing out Native Americans’ brutal historical acts. Harvard scholar, Steven Pinker, wrote that indigenous societies were “far more violent than our own.” In “Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage,” anthropologist Lawrence Keeley wrote, “the dogs of war were seldom on a leash” among Native American societies.

Other examples include the Chippewa tribe forcing the Sioux from their land in what is present-day Minnesota. In return, the Sioux massacred the Omaha, the Kiowa, as well as the Pawnee tribe. Historical accounts of the Aztecs alone reveal an “industry of human sacrifice unlike any other in the world.”

Moore acknowledged that the past actions of injustice by Native American tribes is personal.

“We have an opportunity today to put a spotlight on the injustice that is happening to our brothers and our sisters,” Moore said.

“We will not stop until all the Five Civilized Tribes honor the sacrifices of their black slaves … If we decide that it’s more important that Black Freedmen lives do not matter, and I will have to urge a ‘no’ vote.”

This is so exciting I damned near wet my panties (Metaphor there) We need more of this.
 
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Faroe

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So, the native Americans had slaves, blacks had slaves, an article here posted recently claimed that a large percentage of slave owners in the US were Jewish (for real?? who knew? :shr:), the Arabs had a huge (and brutal) slave trade, and many starving Irish fresh-off-the-boat WERE enslaved...

Oh, forgot. Guilty anyway.
Got it.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
One of my Native American family peeps crossed over tonight at 101 years of age and I can assure you she and her ancestors never ever owned slaves. My ancestors are guilty of helping those from over seas and those people soon took over North America.
 
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Faroe said:
an article here posted recently claimed that a large percentage of slave owners in the US were Jewish (for real?? who knew? :shr:),
Click to expand...

My slave-owning ancestors (on Mom's side anyway) were Quakers, no less.
The ones on Dad's side - just plain ol' Anglican Englishmen. ;)

Matters not. The families in my background ended up either W. Virginia hillbillies or hard-scrabble dirt farmers.
 
Millwright

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We now have college courses for SJW.

A whole new crop of commie agitators who's mission is to cause division.

Unfortunately, there is a pool of poorly educated masses who are willing to buy into it.





by design.
 
Kathy in FL

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MinnesotaSmith

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Related on Columbus Day:

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Enjoy Columbus Day While You Can - American Renaissance

I propose a new name for the holiday — and it's not Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Enjoy Columbus Day While You Can
Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, October 11, 2021

"Columbus used to be a hero because he brought white people and Western Civilization to the New World, but now that makes him a great villain. During the George Floyd riots, no fewer than 32 statues and memorials to Columbus came down — either destroyed by mobs or taken away by terrified bureaucrats.
The holiday will probably be renamed Indigenous Peoples Day. The District of Columbia and 13 states already call it that: California, Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Maine, Vermont, Virginia, and North Carolina.

I have a better name for the holiday, which preserves the tradition of giving credit to a single man, in this case, an “indigenous person” named Opechancanough. He became chief of the Jamestown colony’s Indian neighbors when his older brother, Powhatan, died in 1618. Under Powhatan, whose favorite daughter had married an Englishman, there was an only sporadically violent peace.

Opechancanough was different. In 1622, he hatched a plot to exterminate every white man, woman, and child. By then, there were about 1,200 colonists, and many had Indian helpers and employees. On March 22, the Indians came to work with weapons hidden under their clothes, and rose up and massacred the whites. Fortunately for the colony, the main population at Jamestown got wind of the plot. Men kept weapons handy, and the Indians did not attack.
Even so, Opechancanough’s men managed to kill about 400 whites, or one-third of the colonists. The Indians had special consideration for George Thorpe, who had tried harder than any other colonial leader to be kind to Indians. In the words of a contemporary, they “did so many barbarous despights and foule scornes after to his dead corpse, as are unbefitting to be heard by any civill eare.”

The slaughter began a year-long war with the Indians, but Opechancanough sued for peace, and whites and Indians slowly started mingling again. Amazingly, in 1644, Opechancanough ordered an identical sneak attack, and managed to kill between 400 and 500 English. This time, the colonists went on to kill so many Indians, including Opechancanough, that two years later, the Virginia General Assembly noted with satisfaction that the natives were “so routed and dispersed that they are no longer a nation, and we now suffer only from robbery by a few starved outlaws.”

Opechancanough was a patriot and freedom fighter, a defender of his people against the rapacious white man. Rather than celebrating a tame abstraction — indigenous people — let us celebrate a hero who, not just once but twice, tried to save his tribe, his land, and his way of live by exterminating the hated white man. And Opechancanough is exactly the kind of alien, unpronounceable name that best stands for the America of the future."
 
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