[Magdalen] Indigenous People Day.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

for me, no matter what anyone thinks about the 'ravages' of Columbus, 
isolating his holiday and attributing it as a slap in the face to what he 
*did* in the name of  'white Europeans' in/to the new world, seems a bit of 
a stretch. When we can't even deal with what white Americans have done with 
the indigenous people since *we* became a nation (not much honesty and 
repentance their), and to the freed slaves after the civil war (which we 
still deal with, or fail to do so) , it's all up there on the same platform, 
IMO.

Someone had to be and do what Columbus did or we most probably would not be 
here now. History is history. We err more when we forget it than when we 
cherry pick details and treat them as incidents isolated by time and place.


Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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Subject: [Magdalen] Indigenous People Day.

>
> A couple more USA cities have adopted this approach to what has been
> the USA holiday of Columbus Day (= October 12, Christopher  Columbus
> birthday).
>
> The change over to either "Native American Day" or "Indigenous People
> Day" seems to be gaining momentum.
>
> My personal feeling is that the two observances somehow need to be
> combined.
>
> I remember well the Liturgy at the National Cathedral on October 12,
> 1992 - the 500th anniversary of the first Columbus voyage - which
> was billed as "The 500th Anniversary of the Survival of the Native
> Americans."  It's hard to forget the sound of tom-toms and ankle
> bells of Indian dancers from the four cardinal points converging on
> the nave altar.
>
> YMMV.
>
>
>
> David Strang.