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    Biden becomes first president to proclaim Indigenous Peoples' Day

    "Oct. 9 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden is the first president to issue a proclamation for Indigenous Peoples' Day.

    Biden issued the proclamation on Friday, recognizing Monday as Indigenous People's Day, and marking the first time a U.S. president has done so.
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    "Our country was conceived on a promise of equality and opportunity for all people -- a promise that, despite the extraordinary progress we have made through the years, we have never fully lived up to," Biden wrote in the proclamation. "That is especially true when it comes to upholding the rights and dignity of the Indigenous people who were here long before colonization of the Americas began."

    "History demonstrates that Native American people -- and our nation as a whole -- are best served when tribal governments are empowered to lead their communities and when federal officials listen to and work together with Tribal leaders when formulating federal policy that affects tribal nations," Biden wrote.
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    "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," he continued."

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    Indigenous People's Day

    1. Female warriors

    Native American women fought alongside men in battles, the most popular among them being the Buffalo Calf Road Woman of the Northern Cheyenne tribe.

    2. Popcorn

    The Indigenous Americans were the first to domesticate the strains of maize that produced popcorn thousands of years ago.

    3. Maria Tallchief

    The first Native American (and American) to dance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and with the Paris Opera Ballet was Maria Tallchief.


    4. Hockey


    The Native American tribes of Foxes, Saux, and Assiniboine played a game called shinny, which is where hockey came from.


    5. The sequoia tree

    The sequoia tree is named after the revered Cherokee leader Sequoyah, who created an alphabet for his people.
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    Ancient Civilizations of North America
    Source credit: Professor Edwin Barnhart, Ph.D. Maya Exploration Center

    Arriving in the 15th century and beyond, European explorers came to North America hoping to discover another civilization like those of the Maya or Inca to plunder. Not finding mountains of gold or silver, they saw no value in what they did find: myriad sophisticated cultures with hundreds of vibrant cities, roadways, canals, extensive trade networks, art, religious traditions, and thousands of earthen pyramids.

    The people who shaped these civilizations—the engineers, political leaders, mathematicians, and astronomers—were also considered to be of no value, labeled by the Europeans as primitive and backwards, often enslaved or murdered. And because the native peoples left no written language, the narrative continued to be shaped by the conquerors, passed down as truth from generation to generation.

    But now—with the technological advances of modern archaeology and a new perspective on world history—we are finally able to piece together their compelling true stories.

    Astronomers, Engineers, and Hydrologists
    The peoples of ancient North America were exceptionally knowledgeable about their environment; their lives required it. They used their detailed understanding of flora and fauna, landforms, geology, and water resources when developing strategies for hunting and gathering, locating villages, and farming. But their intellectual and artistic curiosity went much beyond the immediate need for food and safety. Beginning thousands of years ago, and without the benefit of written language, native peoples became skilled mathematicians, metallurgists, jewelers, construction engineers, astronomers, and more.

    Ancient Cities to Rival Those of Classical European Antiquity
    Built by a Late Archaic people, Poverty Point is considered by most archaeologists to be the first city in North America. Supporting a population of more than 4,000—40 times the size of an average village at the time—it existed for more than 1,000 years. With Professor Barnhart as your guide, you will understand how Poverty Point has been revealed as a master-planned community, with a 37-acre central plaza; earthen pyramids; and six semi-circular, concentric platform mounds holding hundreds of houses. Carbon-14 dating reveals that the entire set of concentric platform mounds were built in one single phase, requiring extensive leadership, planning, surveying skills, and cooperation from an enormous pool of laborers. Even with its compact organization, every single house had a view of the central plaza—a feat many modern planners would be challenged to accomplish.

    Cahokia, built about 1,000 years ago just east of present-day St. Louis, was the largest city in ancient North America north of Mesoamerica. With 3,000 acres and 50,000 people living in its interior and satellite communities, Cahokia dwarfed the contemporaneous populations of London, Paris, and Rome. At one point in its history, the ancient city was razed and replaced with a master-planned version more than three times its previous size. Although many of Cahokia’s features, such as large mounds, ritual spaces, and communal farming, had been seen elsewhere, its scale and level of social organization were unprecedented.

    The Legacy of the Iroquois: North American Democracy
    At the time of European contact, the Iroquois were a semi-sedentary farming people near Lakes Erie and Ontario whose villages were often in fierce conflict with each other. When three visionary leaders recognized that such continual warfare was holding the nation back, they proposed a tribal confederation known as The Great League of Peace. The League’s Great Council consisted of 50 chiefs, or sachem, each of whom was elected to represent a specific clan by the clan’s female elders. These women voted their representatives in—and could also vote them out. The Great Council settled all disputes and conflicts through dialog, debate, and consensus, guided by the 117 articles of confederation known as the “Great Law of Peace.”

    Not only did the Iroquois establish the first North American democracy, but the framers of the U.S. Constitution held the system in the highest regard. Two hundred years after establishing its own Constitution, the United States formally acknowledged this Iroquois legacy in Congressional Resolution 331, stating the “confederation of the original Thirteen Colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the Constitution itself.”

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    The real Americans have were very accommodating to the white immigrants.

    Now it is time for the white immigrants to be more thankful.
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    The invention of the canoe! The most unseaworthy vessel of them all that tips over at the drop of a hat!

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    Give me a fucking break. Pollyanna.

    None of the important issues are being addressed while we go on these woke orgies.

    It's self-sabotage.
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    History shouldn't be sugar coated, indigenous people and their societies had their flaws, like all other humans.

    But history owes it to them to dispell the notion they were indigent savages living in Teepees. The ancient civilizations of North America are worth our attention.

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    From the OP link:

    "History of Indigenous Peoples' Day

    The first seed of Indigenous Peoples’ Day was planted at a U.N. international conference on discrimination in 1977. The first state to recognize the day was South Dakota in 1989. Berkeley, California, and Santa Cruz followed suit.

    Although the day was still considered Columbus Day up to 1937, many people began calling it Indigenous Peoples’ Day to celebrate the rich culture and the lives of the Native American people.

    For the Native Americans, Columbus Day was always hurtful as it glorified the violent past constituting 500 years of colonial torture and oppression by European explorers like Columbus and those who settled in America. Indigenous Peoples’ Day draws attention to the pain, trauma, and broken promises that were erased by the celebration of Columbus Day. Before his arrival, the indigenous folk were successful self-sufficient communities that sustained life for thousands of years.

    Year by year, the movement to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day spreads to more and more states, towns, and cities across the United States of America.

    Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrates, recognizes, and honors the beautiful traditions and cultures of the Indigenous People, not just in America, but around the world. Their way of life and culture carries wisdom and valuable insights into how we can live life more sustainably.

    Today, 14 U.S. states celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day and not Columbus Day, as well as the District of Columbia. More than 130 cities including Arlington, Amherst, Cambridge, Brookline, Marblehead, Great Barrington, Northampton, Provincetown, Somerville, and Salem also celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day."
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    The bloody and barbaric intertribal massacres fought between tribes before the European explorers ever set foot on this continent.

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    The bloody Aztecs and Mayans who decided to kill their own people when they ran out of other people to slaughter. ` Hip Hip HOORAYYYYYYY

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    Give me a fucking break. Pollyanna.

    None of the important issues are being addressed while we go on these woke orgies.

    It's self-sabotage.
    Agreed Guido. You are an asshole who I rarely agree with,....but you are a real sonofabitch and I kinda like that about you.

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    The Code Talkers:

    "During World Wars I and II, hundreds of Native American servicemen from more than twenty tribes used their Indigenous languages to send secret, coded messages enemies could never break. Known as code talkers, these men helped U.S. forces achieve military victory in some of the greatest battles of the twentieth century."

    "In addition to Choctaw language speakers, Ho-Chunks, Eastern Cherokees, Comanches, Cheyennes, Yankton Sioux, and Osages were among the Native men who served as code talkers during World War I."

    "Ultimately, approximately 534 American Indian code talkers were deployed in World War II. The U.S. Marine Corps, which operated the largest code-talking program, sent approximately 420 Diné (Navajo) language speakers to help win the war in the Pacific. In Europe, Comanche code talkers participated in the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France as well as many of the major campaigns that crushed the Third Reich."

    " The men were assigned to the 168th Infantry, 34th Red Bull Division and were sent to North Africa, where they participated in the attacks on Italy under heavy shelling. Three of the men were captured and confined to Italian and German prison camps."

    And they did this for the UNITED States of America.

    How have we repaid them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stone View Post
    The invention of the canoe! The most unseaworthy vessel of them all that tips over at the drop of a hat!
    Anyone can play that game.

    Unless you are pure blood Italian, your proto English, Germanic, French, Scottish ancestors were savages who only became civilized under the military occupation of Roman Legions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    The Code Talkers:

    How have we repaid them?
    With Casino's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Anyone can play that game.

    Unless you are pure blood Italian, your English, Germanic, Irish, Scottish ancestors were savages who only became civilized under the military occupation of Roman Legions.
    EXACTLY my point. Agreed.

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