ITP V.014 SOCIAL JUSTICE: MINNEAPOLIS CELEBRATES "INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY"

U.S. city  MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA joins ALASKA, HAWAII, OREGON and SOUTH DAKOTA in celebrating of "INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY" instead of COLUMBUS DAY. 

ITP V.014 EDITORS NOTE: ITP V.014's author celebrates "INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY" NOT COLUMBUS DAY. 

http://time.com/78205/minneapolis-indigenous-peoples-columbus-day/

http://www.minnpost.com/political-agenda/2014/04/minneapolis-creates-indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day
http://www.uctp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=394&Itemid=2

FROM NATIVE CAUSES FACEBOOK: 

Minneapolis joins states like Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon and South Dakota, which don't celebrate Columbus Day at all.

This day is starting to get BETTER!
May I say "SCORE"!!!!
We will continue to see this through. Continue to rally to ABOLISH your celebrated holiday of the beginning of genocide of our people. The day will come when he will be celebrated NO MORE!!! 
People this is what happens when you sign petitions, speak out and make noise! This didn't happen from being silent. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!

for those that like to call me a racist because I fight for Native rights, would you say the same of "Sitting Bull"??? read his own words..." Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux (Lakota)? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?"
~Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake (Sitting Bull)~

South Dakota has been celebrating Native American Day since 1989. Now, Minneapolis is following suit by replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. Do you think it should change everywhere?

No only did Columbus underestimate the distance, he somehow had no clue that there was this big huge landmass (aka North America) between Europe and the East Indies. So, after being at sea for 2 months, on October 12, 1492, he landed on an island in the Bahamas, which he named San Salvador (Some historians believe Watling's Island in the Bahamas is where he really landed) , haughty and proud thinking he had accomplished his goal of sailing to the East Indies. 

The Arawak Indians greeted him, but, they didn't have any spices let alone pepper. They also had no gold or really anything worth bringing back to Spain. You can imagine what Columbus thought! The trip was a total bust. But, to Columbus' dying day, he believed he had reached the East Indies. He just felt it wasn't his fault they didn't have the spices that were so rumored about.

But, the Arawak Indians were peaceful. They served as guides to help Columbus for the remainder of his voyage. I shall insert a joke here. Those of us who are Italian often remark that it's a good thing Columbus wasn't afraid to ask for directions or he'd never have found anything! 

Well, Columbus sailed and sailed and sailed. In a 9 year time frame, he made 3 voyages eventually discovering: Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad and the mouth of the Orinoco River on the S. American mainland. On his 4th and final voyage of his life, he made it down to the Isthmus of Panama, but he never did find the East Indies, all those spices, gold etc. that he expected.

He returned back to Spain in 1504 only to have his patron Queen Isabella die a few weeks later. Without her, he basically was a pauper and as I said in the beginning, he died 2 years later in 1506 in poverty.

LOSER!!!!!!!

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