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Posted by sigismund on October 23, 2010, at 0:48:59
You can sign the petition here
http://www.petitiononline.com/indian/petition.html
I see they want it on Columbus Day, a holiday of which I was unaware.
Australia Day is also known as Invasion Day, so I have wondered for some time if such a holiday as this would happen on Thanksgiving.
But then I read on Wiki
>It is thought that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony survive their first brutal winter in New England.[2] The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.
Posted by PartlyCloudy on November 3, 2010, at 12:04:22
In reply to National holiday for Native Americans, posted by sigismund on October 23, 2010, at 0:48:59
Sig,
I wish I'd seen this post earlier. I just came back from a holiday in the southwest of the US. I was soaking the cultural history like a sponge in my contact with the First Nations people. It felt intensely spiritual in an almost embarrassingly way. I've only felt this connected emotionally with an other being since I got to spend a day on a research vessel in New England; identifying and counting Humpback whales in Stellwagon Bank, their summer feeding grounds in the Atlantic Ocean.PartlyCloudy
Posted by PartlyCloudy on November 3, 2010, at 12:17:07
In reply to Re: National holiday for Native Americans » sigismund, posted by PartlyCloudy on November 3, 2010, at 12:04:22
> Sig,
> I wish I'd seen this post earlier. I just came back from a holiday in the southwest of the US. I was soaking the cultural history like a sponge in my contact with the First Nations people. It felt intensely spiritual in an almost embarrassingly way. I've only felt this connected emotionally with an other being since I got to spend a day on a research vessel in New England; identifying and counting Humpback whales in Stellwagon Bank, their summer feeding grounds in the Atlantic Ocean.
>
> PartlyCloudyIn case there is any question, I do not mean any insult to any party in my post above. Please excuse any awkward form of articulating my feelings.
Posted by sigismund on November 4, 2010, at 22:53:32
In reply to Re: National holiday for Native Americans » PartlyCloudy, posted by PartlyCloudy on November 3, 2010, at 11:17:07
Here's something I copied out for Pat a few years back. You might have read it but perhaps not. I was entranced. I don't know where these Amerindian groups lived.....maybe not too far from central America?
Posted by sigismund on November 4, 2010, at 22:58:16
In reply to Re: National holiday for Native Americans » PartlyCloudy, posted by sigismund on November 4, 2010, at 22:53:32
That's from "One River" by Wade Davis.
Posted by sigismund on November 5, 2010, at 0:03:58
In reply to Re: National holiday for Native Americans » PartlyCloudy, posted by sigismund on November 4, 2010, at 23:53:32
http://www.intermundos.org/sierra_nevada1.htm
Maybe that is Columbia?
I seem to recall that range of mountains from the book. If I'm right in that it is a remarkable range, rising something like 20,000ft in 20 miles or something similar.
Posted by PartlyCloudy on November 7, 2010, at 17:03:14
In reply to Re: National holiday for Native Americans, posted by sigismund on November 5, 2010, at 0:03:58
Oops, I forgot to check on this thread in this barren land - sorry!
I'll do some catching up and be right with you, Sig.
pc
Posted by PartlyCloudy on November 8, 2010, at 11:04:13
In reply to Re: National holiday for Native Americans » sigismund, posted by PartlyCloudy on November 7, 2010, at 17:03:14
Thank you for those links!
I am all for honoring them.
pc
Posted by Free on November 16, 2010, at 10:23:54
In reply to National holiday for Native Americans, posted by sigismund on October 23, 2010, at 0:48:59
I have signed the petition supporting a National Holiday for Native Americans.
They can have any day as far as I'm concerned. It's the least we can do, and sooner the better.
Posted by sigismund on November 16, 2010, at 16:25:20
In reply to Re: National holiday for Native Americans, posted by Free on November 16, 2010, at 10:23:54
>They can have any day as far as I'm concerned
I don't remember it but dimly recall reading some story about Columbus, although it might have been someone else. Something set in the Carribean? Terrible, anyway.
I signed too. Anyone can. You don't have to be a US citizen.
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