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Thanks to a left-wing, “woke” political intervention, the second Monday in October has been designated by some as Indigenous Peoples Day. It used to be solely known as Columbus Day, named for the Italian explorer who notified the civilized world of the Western Hemisphere. But because left-wingers hate everything about Western civilization — and people of European descent — the Left has successfully rebranded the holiday.
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Patrick Richardson, representing the Haliwa Saponi tribe, from Hollister, N.C. competes in the grass dance, the most intricate and difficult indian dance category, at the Howard County Pow Wow in West Friendship, MD on Saturday July 15, 2006. Today Pow Wow’s consist of a sense of panned indianism where all tribes carry on in a common characteristic as a way to showcase themselves to a dominant society. Arianne Starnes/ For the Examiner
Yet, given the propensity for slavery, murder, and conquest in Native American history, I am calling for an end to any holiday commemorating such barbarism. After all, years of leftist indoctrination have taught us that any civilization that attacked, enslaved, and conquered people who were not of European descent — as indigenous tribes did for centuries — is not worth honoring or celebrating. As enlightened sophisticates of the 21st century, commemorating such societies is inappropriate.
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Given their desire to revise history, people might be surprised to learn that history did not begin in 1492. Long before Columbus set foot in the Western Hemisphere, indigenous people roamed those lands, conquering other indigenous people and thirsting for their land and resources. Students of the Howard Zinn school of thought have valiantly tried to hide these facts, but nevertheless, they’re true.
The White House announced in its proclamation that “Indigenous Peoples were forcibly removed from ancestral lands, displaced, assimilated, and banned from worshiping or performing many sacred ceremonies.” And despite the overwhelming desire for leftists to blame the white man, it was actually Native Americans who committed these crimes against their people.
While the leftism-infused education system of the United States rarely touches on this ominous side of Native American history, plenty of research has documented the savage brutality of pre-Columbian indigenous people.
Consider Harvard scholar Steven Pinker, who has done extensive research on this subject. Pinker’s work revealed that Native American cultures were “far more violent than our own.” He also categorized indigenous society as “the most violent era” in the continent’s history after archaeologist Tim Kohler discovered the brutality of the Mesa Verde and Pueblo Indians. Kohler’s research showed that close to “90 percent of human remains from that period had trauma from blows to either their heads or parts of their arms.”
Additionally, anthropologist Lawrence Keeley chronicled Native American societies and civilizations. In his book War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage, Keeley claimed that “the dogs of war were seldom on a leash” regarding Native American tribal interaction. Also, famous historian Bernard Bailyn classified indigenous society before interaction with Europeans as “not a terribly peaceful world. They were always involved in warfare.”
Also, consider the cruelty of the Aztecs. For decades, the Aztecs conquered neighboring tribes to form their vast empire in what is now central Mexico. They raped women, enslaved children, and participated in human sacrifice and capital punishment. Research shows that they punished homosexuality with death and routinely exploited and murdered women.
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But indigenous savagery existed for centuries, even after the Europeans arrived. Consider the Chippewa. This tribe conquered their Sioux neighbors and forced them into exile from what is present-day Minnesota. In turn, the Sioux attacked and massacred the Pawnee, the Kiowa, and the Omaha.
Numerous other tribes also attacked each other, and the white man had nothing to do with it. There wasn’t a “clash of civilizations.” When it came to indigenous peoples, it was a clash within civilizations. Given their bloodthirsty history, and out of respect for the descendants of those who suffered at the hands of Native American barbarism, Indigenous Peoples Day should not be celebrated and must come to an end.
