[Peace-discuss] Columbus Day / First Americans Day

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

I suggest an Andrew Warhola Day to celebrate the fact that thankfully 
there are not enough days for every gallinascat gaggle of sectarian 
ideologues to have its own.  AWD should not come at any time in 
particular or be considered to conflict with any particular 
non-birthday, except that it should not occur on the Monday after the 
2nd Sunday in May.

On 10/05/13 16:59, George Hardebeck wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> I would like to know if there is interest here in taking on similar 
> work to what we have begun, so far in Cincinnati, where we lived 
> before moving here in May of last year.
> In 2011 and 2012, for our Vigil for Native Life, our Mayor of 
> Cincinnati, Mark Mallory, proclaimed Columbus Day as also First 
> Americans Day, an honorary title. In 2010 he proclaimed for us Native 
> American Heritage Month, to honor this lightly known national 
> observance, also as a city, among related proclamations.
> First Americans Day... could be honored leading up to Native American 
> Heritage Month, November, as Martin Luther Kings Day leads into 
> African American Heritage Month.
> Some of our local peoples of indigenous decent, In Cincinnati, among 
> others associated, felt we should not try to bring Columbus Day to an 
> end, as this might sweep this figure under the carpet, when we need to 
> address the genocide and ecocide that began with his 'discovery' of 
> the Americas.
> Some states dropped the holiday or never took it up. Much of this is 
> listed in the links provided. We felt, for a potentially national 
> holiday in the future the term First Americans honored our 
> First Peoples best and left room for native species of the Americas to 
> be honored. 'First' connotes a sense of respect that Native and 
> Indigenous have not engendered, so well so far.
> In Wikipedia, linked, see 'Opposition' down, also for South American 
> positions.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day>
> http://www.indians.org/welker/byecolum.htm 
> <http://www.indians.org/welker/byecolum.htm>
> http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/faithful.html 
> <http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/faithful.html>
> http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/obama_and_first_americans.html 
> <http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/obama_and_first_americans.html>
> http://blog.reconciliationecology.org/2010/10/apology-for-columbus-day.html 
> <http://blog.reconciliationecology.org/2010/10/apology-for-columbus-day.html>_http://open.salon.com/blog/avimecca/2011/10/04/an_italianamerican_against_columbus_day_
> Are there those here interested in such work? I know there has been 
> much work undertaken around mascots. What can we do beginning this 
> year, as a region... to open a conversation, perhaps, for what we may 
> take on throughout the next year for greater healing, reconciliation, 
> amends, etc.?
> Upholding symbols like Columbus sets a precedent for such injustice to 
> be related as standard to our formational identity, as a people of 
> place, allowing us to more easily carry such ways elsewhere. There 
> are, I understand, Italian Americans seeking another Italian American 
> Day, after First Peoples have discussed this with them.
> Having grown for part of my childhood among family in 
> southwestern Ireland, I have seen how cultures can revive the identity 
> of their homelands, their native language and arts, and rooted ways of 
> being toward their place and life, and the benefits of more 
> intentional culture.
> In Cincinnati we opened Native American Heritage Month, for a few 
> years so far, with our Harvest for Reconciliation, on the first 
> weekend of November, following that Friday being World Community Day. 
> This, more informally and in gratitude, began our Healing Our 
> Heartlands more focused conversations for reconciliation with our 
> First Peoples, Culture and Life (ecologically...), all Native, which 
> we ran through aspects of our culture: Interfaith & Interethnic work; 
> Health & Education; Gardening & Conservation; and Arts & Media (to 
> take on well being through identity... place to planet, as ecology 
> works). Commercial & Public Service could follow. These conversations 
> were also woven into arts events, for eco-cultural restoration, all 
> focused from harvest into Spring as a season of reconciliation to 
> bring us back into further restoration during the outdoor season.
> I can share copies of our proclamations with those interested, or 
> other materials used for our Vigil for Native Life, etc. I need to 
> support our related events in Cincinnati, it seems, next weekend 
> around this date.
> Deep Peace & Ghra Mhor,
> George Hardebeck
> ARCHE - Arts Restoring Culture for Healing Earth
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>
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