Native Americans Protest Columbus Day

[Kambojaric]

Columbus did not discover America the Vikings did.

How about the native Americans discovered it first? After all they actually lived on that land before being "discovered" by Europeans. Its like saying Punjab was discovered in the 1850s by the East India Company.

 

[VCheng]

This is an incident with idiots inside the truck and idiots outside the truck, nothing else.

The underlying issue is not Columbus Day but the DAPL, which is more of an economy vs environment argument..

 

[coffee_cup]

Cant think of a race more annoying than north american natives....especially the women and old people.

Well then you should look around a bit more...

Our neighbors from the East beat them hands down, especially the new fanatic generation of Modi fanboys!


@Mugwop : Good that something like this did not happen in Pakistan, otherwise same few FOB people who are justifying it would have got their knickers in twist!

 

[Zibago]

 

[VCheng]

@Mugwop I though you may be interested in this story:

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Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall

For the last 35 years, Alabama resident Tom Hendrix has been building a mile-long monument, in his hometown Florence, to honor his great-great grandmother, a Yuchi Indian who was one of the millions of Native Americans who were forced from their homes in the southeast to the new Indian Territories in Oklahoma following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Hendrix’s great-great-grandmother, Te-lah-nay, then a 17-year-old girl, walked with her sister along what is now known as the “Trail of Tears” to her new territories in present day Muskogee, Oklahoma. But Te-lah-nay longed to return home, and after spending just one winter in Oklahoma, she began a lonely, five-year-long perilous journey back to her native land — a distance of more than 600 miles.

Tom Hendrix’s monument was built to commemorate Te-lah-nay’s courageous walk back home. The monument consist of two parallel walls made of limestone and sandstone rocks, about four feet high, that meander through his property under a thick canopy of oak and beech trees. It is the largest unmortared wall in the United States.

Photo credit: Laura Bell/Flickr

Tom Hendrix had heard stories about Te-lah-nay from his grandmother all his life, and he felt that he needed to do something to honor her memory. An elderly Yuchi woman provided him the idea. He was told, “One step at a time, one stone at a time. Lay a stone for every step she made… We shall pass this earth. Only the stones will remain. We honor our ancestors with stones.”

Hendrix started constructing the wall on his own property a few miles off the Natchez Trace Parkway. Over the decades, Hendrix estimates that he has carried more than 8.5 million pounds of stones from the Tennessee River, and in the process wore out —in his own words— “three trucks, 22 wheelbarrows, 3,700 pairs of gloves, three dogs and one 87-year-old man.” Such a dedication for a woman he has never met.

Today, the Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall has become something of a pilgrimage site drawing people from all around the world. These days, Hendrix spends more time greeting visitors than building the wall.

Photo credit: Laura Bell/Flickr

Photo credit: Laura Bell/Flickr

Photo credit: Laura Bell/Flickr

Sources: BBC / savingplaces.org / journal.alabamachanin.com

 

[ApparentRaceTraitor]

Well then you should look around a bit more...

Our neighbors from the East beat them hands down, especially the new fanatic generation of Modi fanboys!


@Mugwop : Good that something like this did not happen in Pakistan, otherwise same few FOB people who are justifying it would have got their knickers in twist!

South asian...fresh off the boaters are annoying af. You trying to generalize them by country doesnt change that.

Still.....a far sight better than native americans.

 

[Mugwop]

We don't know the story. For all we know somebody pulled out a gun and the guy floored it.



I didn't get the day off.

Or maybe an axe

South asian...fresh off the boaters are annoying af. You trying to generalize them by country doesnt change that.

Still.....a far sight better than native americans.

Sacred spirit chant
AH-UH NAYAH OH-WA OH-WA
SHON-DAY OH-WA OH-WA
SHON-DAY CAN-NON NON NOHA NOHA

people feel entitled to do whatever they want. protest turns into just disorderly chaos.

if these people hate the U.S so much they should just leave. Columbus is a hero. If they want protest anyone it should be the conquistadors.

Dakota pipeline protest I understand but columbus day I don't and why now?
Because of this dude in the white truck I believe more protests will come now.

 

[ApparentRaceTraitor]

Or maybe an axe


Sacred spirit chant
AH-UH NAYAH OH-WA OH-WA
SHON-DAY OH-WA OH-WA
SHON-DAY CAN-NON NON NOHA NOHA
.

You'd be surprised at how often we that that shit in deadmonton.

 

[Mugwop]

You'd be surprised at how often we that that shit in deadmonton.

We barely get to see or listen to it here