Shouldn't this country have a national holiday in honor of its original natives?

Question

The original American natives who populated America should be honored as the true people of this country and we should be ashamed of "the white man's takeover". We celebrate Columbus Day which is a complete sham. How do you discover a country that is already inhabited? We celebrate Thanksgiving Day which is really a slap in the face to native Americans. It's nothing more than a prelude to their demise. We have a real evil way of making us the good guys through out history when in fact we should be feeling a lot more shame.

Answer 1

Speaking, as I do, from over the water in dear old Britain, I would agree entirely with the principles of your idea for a National Holiday to honour the native Americans, which I find entirely laudable.

My question is, where do you stop with all this?

As an Englishman, I no longer feel aggrieved that you celebrate Independence Day.

As an Englishman, I am ashamed that my national predecessors were involved in the slave trade.

We need to acknowledge that mistakes were made in the past, but we still need to move on - what's done is done.

From my perspective from outside of your country, I would think that your native Americans would be far more pleased if they were treated with a little more dignity, a little more respect, and a little more equally - rather than have a National Holiday to celebrate them.

..........and I can see where that would go in your ultra-commercial environment over there - McDonalds would have a holiday special buffalo-burger running, Macys would run a "Ten Little Indians" parade.

As I said, your principles are excellent - but I think the reality would be something different.

Answer 2

Nothing you build on shakey foundations lasts. People that talk with fork tongues get caught in their own dribble. Eventually all the atrocities will be accounted for, and the Karma right now is ready to hit full cycle. But I am a native and white, so I empathize with this generation that had nothing to do with the past. And I literally push past all of that and open the envelope to the future and leave all the rest in the dust where it belongs. It would not behoove me to pound my chest and face the east or pray to the great white father of my ancestors, to ask for the demise of the enemies of the past because they are dead and if their spirits are wandering God will take care of all of that one step at a time. Right now we have to look forward to the new enemy, disease, pollution, forest devastation for the oxygen, poison fish, poison water supplies. I know everywhere there are native countrymen, all over the world the Nordics for instance they were native just like us, the Gauls(French) Chinese, etc., all of which means nothing unless they have instinct of a native, that is what counts, is if you really are a native yourself. You are in America as an American born native, but not a native right? Okay but your ancestors were a native from somewhere? And back then everyone was uncivilized. We here were warring before the whiteman came, against the Natives of South America and nowadays called Mexico but was not then they were natives without the Spain blood in them. So we were aggressive too. It is a humble man and a great man who defeats his enemy with honor and does not humiliate them after the defeat. This seems to be what happened with the policies of the government. To humiliate my people was unforgivable. They did better when they killed us. But for the grace of God here we are still surviving and suffering along with everyone else in this cruel world. Superiority complexes is what the problem is, and the fact they are not willing to admit and give anything in return. Denial, Thanksgiving is a holiday to be celebrated with a native american not the way it is celebrated. Chistmas is not the birth of Christ, (April 7,35-37 AD) and Easter is Passover, the dinner that Jesus was celebrating in his religious beliefs of Judaism, and New Year is not January 1st either, Columbus day is a federal holiday so people that work get a paid day off. This world is all built on a lie but so is the rest of the world and Europe especially, who do you think lives here but ancestors of the brutal Europe and Britain. They left there to get away from that to do it to us, and then feel superior, and they have not changed over there or China or Russia, and especially not in the middleeast Africa, and anywhere else, they all are murderers, and that is just one sin? So what to do? Push Forward, live your life, there is a God and it will be a day of reckoning.

Answer 3

When you figure out who REALLY discovered America and what it was called before Europeans came here then we can discuss holidays. What is your problem? What have you got against being white? If you want to know the truth The Vikings touched shore here about 5 centuries before Columbus and the Irish a couple of hundred years before that. We don't celebrate Leif Erikson's day, or St. Brendon's day. So, how do you know the "native" Americans didn't come here over the land bridge over the Bering Straits and wipe out people who lived here before? There could have been someone here when they came over. The "native" Americans won't let anyone dig around to find out very much about this part of the world. What are they hiding? Come on, I'll bet there WERE people here when the "native" Americans arrived. I'd like to know what you think we should do, move back to Europe. My family, like a lot of others, have been here so long we don't even know where we came from in Europe. So, if you don't like things around here, you go back. If anyone in the "Old World" will have you.

Answer 4

I could not agree more. In highschool I was fed American Pie. When I went to college and learned the truth, I was embarrassed to be an American. The current administration is really humiliating. I hope the world realizes that we are not all so self centered, shallow, ignorant, and cocky.

It's like the Chevrolet commercials: They say, "From the country that brought you Rock and Roll!" I always think, "That's funny. I wasn't aware Chevrolets were built in Africa!"

Anyway, I absolutely agree. There is no American Indian holiday nationally recognized, is there? I think we need one. All in favor, respond to this person's question. Let's start a movement RIGHT NOW! Then, write to your representative. We stole their $*&@*# land. The LEAST we can do is honor them with a holiday.

Answer 5

I look at it this way. I never owned a slave so I feel no guilt that slaves were owned 100 years before I was born. I never stole land so I feel no guilt that land had been stolen from people 100 years or more before I was born. I do not suffer guilt from the sins of my fathers or anyone elses fathers. It was their choice not mine. I should not be made to feel guilty for anything some one else did. I don't celebrate Columbus Day and for the life of me can't figure out why any one would. The so called natives came here from somewhere else too. They just got here earlier.
Get over it and move on with your life.

Answer 6

I think what this country DOES NOT need is another national holiday.

Seriously. I am so tired of people bellyaching about stuff that happened before we were ever even born. Why does it even bother you now? It is over & done with.

I'm sure every country at its birth took their country away from someone else. You don't see them making a national holiday celebrating that people.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

They are the loser, they killed helpless women and children. So why honor them? Why not have a day for the Kaiser Wilhelm instead?

Answer 9

Yes, absolutely.

Answer 10

been saying this for years but hard to get anyone to listen who can get the action started. hope you can. good luck