When is the United States going to make corrections?

Question

to US History regarding Columbus Day..and delete that holiday? cause he did not discover America...and Give credit to the true americans...The true Natives of America who were always here before the White man came....So when are they going to make changes and tell the true story for the world to know?

Answer 1

The point is of the holiday is not to point out the fact that people were already here, but to point out the accomplishment of someone from Europe, Discovering the America's, considering all of the difficulties that were involved at the time.

If there is any true story to be told here, it has nothing to do with the Indians, they were sitting pretty already here, but with the Vikings, because they discovered the America's long before Columbus, but because they hid that information for reasons lost in time, or the information was simply lost in time, the true facts surrounding their accomplishment are impossible to come by, hence it is kind of hard to put a holiday towards them, because you have no names, dates or places, just some artifacts that were found that proves it, so it defaults back to Columbus.

Now you could put forth an argument for debate that the Indians need a holiday or two to honor their heritage and how it has effected all Americans, I could get behind that, but that and the Europeans discovering what to them were new lands and the difficulties that they had to over come to do that are two very different things.

John B.

Answer 2

I think that Columbus Day may slide off the holiday sheet in time, as some other holiday takes it place. Already, fewer places have that day off.

The reason that it will take a long time is that many Italian-Americans view this as a day of pride and will fight it. Since there aren't many people clamoring for it to be taken away, a politician will more likely piss off more people than they will please by changing its status. This is the real reason why it won't change anytime soon.

I agree that the Native Americans were clearly the first to be here and that nobody else could "discover" it after they were here. To say otherwise is to say that they are lesser people, which was how most people felt at the time, viewing them as something little more than animals.

If you want to honor the first Europeans, the evidence is clear that the Vikings spent time on the eastern Canadian coast long before Chris sailed the ocean blue.

Answer 3

Well, I guess the difference is they were here. But if Columbus or other Europeans had not traveled to America, how long would it have been before the "true natives" discovered Europe?

Answer 4

Sadly history is often told from the perspective of the victorious and not from that of the vanquished. I think Rocky & Bullwinkle have a better chance at being elected President and Vice-President of these United States. Hey, are they running in 2008?

Answer 5

Never.

Answer 6

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