October 12: Best Wishes On This Native Americans Day

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/october-12-best-wishes-native-americans

"Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has been poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught,
only then will you find money cannot be eaten."

~ Cree Prophecy

ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS DAY:

Native Americans Day is a response to the claim that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas, which is an odd notion for anyone to agree with — unless they think a populated continent doesn't count as being discovered already. It is also a day to contemplate what indigenous people endured when Europeans invaded the Americas.

This commemorative day has officially replaced or challenged Columbus Day in in parts of the United States. South Dakota official replaced Columbus Day with Native Americans Day in 1989. Other states — California, Minnesota, Tennessee and Washington — proclaimed their own official observances that take place before and after Columbus Day.

No one can argue against Columbus having played a pivotal role in history. But that role also contributed to a playbook for robbery, lies and genocide, all of which were aimed at the indigenous people of the Americas — the people who protected the land and bounties of their hemisphere.

This Columbus Day, while you’re enjoying ten percent off a new toaster at K-mart, not having to drive your kid to school before the sun rises or — if you’re Republican — enjoying the fact that the Federal Government is shut down for the day, maybe you can take a second to remember a common theme among many American Indian philosophies: no one owns the earth. It’s a gift from nature to cherish and protect, not a landmass for Columbus or anybody else to conquer and destroy.

republicans are all up in arms over Russian aggression in the mid east but is this history any different???  aggressively taking away land or anything else from another is theft.  you hear these persons calling themselves the real Americans well maybe they were because that was not what this land was called by indigenous peoples who probably only referred to what they inhabited not the two continents or one as a whole.

but naming something and pushing others out is making that land yours by your aggression if you can't be stopped you just successfully robbed others of their homes, and relegate them to second class like the countries we went to war with and still maintain military bases there are they any more than a reminder of who won????????

http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring04/warfare.cfm

Russia ,USA, Syria having trouble making a distinction.  today's republican denials are tantamount to our history nothing changes.