#columbus day

[theatrical-penguin]

Annual post

Thank you for the reminder, Janet

#the good place #Columbus Day #Columbus is in the Bad Place

[antiwaradvocates]

Solidarity and love to all of our Indigenous comrades—and to all Indigenous peoples, the world over. May the murderous, destructive legacy of Columbus rot and be forgotten.

#christopher columbus #columbus #indigenous rights #indigenous peoples day #Columbus Day #USA #turtle island #free turtle island #landback

[typhlonectes]

#Columbus Day #Columbus #Christopher Columbus #US history #Memes #Politics

[queerindigenouspagan]

Indigenous People's Day

"Fuck Columbus"

Great, so true, but how else are you going to show up for Indigenous people today? Columbus has been dead for hundreds of years. While it's perfectly acceptable, and encouraged, to shit talk Columbus, that shouldn't be the only course of action that you take today if you consider yourself to be an Indigenous ally.

Do the work. Learn about some of the current issues affecting Native communities, and then identify Indigenous leadership who are leading actions against those issues. But don't stop there because the work doesn't end at learning. Being an ally is an active process. I'm tired of "allies" simply reblogging some posts and calling it a day.

How are you unlearning colonial thinking? When is the last time you consumed Indigenous media? There are so many amazing films, tv series, and songs produced by and starring Indigenous people. Find them and consume them. Indigenous media matters. How are you demanding justice for Indigenous people? When is the last time you attended a protest relating to Indigenous issues? If you have the ability and means to, get out on the streets. We need numbers to keep the movement going. If you can't physically attend a protest, there are plenty of other ways to help! Designing flyers, infographics, etc. Sending educational emails to keep those in the movement updated. Recruiting. Scheduling events. Securing venue locations. Getting permits. When is the last time you purchased from an Indigenous-owned business? How many Indigenous people do you follow/interact with on social media? Social media provides an incredibly easy way to engage with Indigenous culture and people. How are you raising awareness for the Indigenous people in your everyday life? How are you learning to center Indigenous people? How are you supporting Indigenous sovereignty?

If you're based on the American continents, have you learned the name of the Indigenous peoples whose land you're on? Have you considered paying taxes to that group/tribe (yes, that's something that some states/counties will allow!)? When is the last time that you've been to a powwow? I can't even say how many times I've had non-Indigenous people (primarily White people) tell me that they thought they had to be specifically invited to a powwow by a Native person, or that powwows are closed practices. Please attend your local powwows! Most are open to the public and it's a great place to (respectfully) learn about and directly engage with and support Indigenous culture and people.

I don't want to see anyone (aside from Indigenous people) saying "Happy Indigenous People's Day" or "Fuck Columbus" without doing the necessary work to truly support those statements.

#indigenous peoples day #indigenous #fuck columbus #native american #indigenous rights #native american rights #columbus day

[callese]

#this is amerikkka #indigenous peoples day #Columbus day #free palestine

[skykid-nadir]

Christopher Columbus: A xenophobic colonizer who decimated the Native American population with disease and sold the survivors into slavery

Lief Erikson: Was the actual first European to discover the Americas, was an all-around Cool Viking Dude

Thorfinn: Lief's protégé, established the first long-term settlement in the Americas, coexisted alongside the Native tribes, has his own anime

#columbus day #indigenous peoples day #vinland saga #thorfinn #lief erikson #christopher columbus #This is probably the most political I'll ever get on Tumblr

[yilinsgarden]

it’s his day or something idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#fanart #my art #topher bus #ch topher #clone high #clone high topher #christopher columbus #Columbus day #when I was younger I thought Columbus day was celebrating his birthday #maybe Abe & some of the gang thought so to #they’d go wish topher a happy birthday & tophers just confused& already hating this day to begin with

[redpanther23]

happy indigenous people's day (isn't it so nice to have a day? doesn't it make up for not having a country? lol)

#furry art #furry #retro #grunge #fursona #punk #comic art #nostalgiacore #panther #cat #columbus day #indigenous people's day

[psychologeek]

Anyone else feels like it's kinda ironic that St. Patrick's day is a major holiday in Ireland? No? Just me?

IDK. I feel like it's kinda weird to celebrate someone who wasn't even indigenous to the land, who's known for chasing away the og religion of the area.

Almost like celebrating "Columbus Day" in America.

Oh, wait....

#st patricks day #st paddys day #st Patrick #ireland #america #columbus day

[alwaysbewoke]

#columbus day #fuck columbus

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Rain didn't dampen the enthusiasm of participants and watchers at the Columbus Day Parade, October 12, 1950. Leading a platoon of police is Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri.

Photo: Anthony Camerano for the AP

#vintage New York #1950s #Anthony Camerano #Columbus Day #Columbus Day Parade #Oct. 12 #parade #cops on parade #rainy parade #12 Oct. #12 October #October 12 #rainy day

[geezerwench]

#indigenous people #indigenois peoples day #columbo #columbus day

[vpgoldenrod]

I'd like to talk about why I hate "Indigenous People's Day." (Trigger warning for sexual violence and body horror.)

It's well meaning, I think. And for the longest I appreciated it. But part of the insidious nature of genocide is that it erases culture, and lumping the over one thousand independent tribes of the Americas as “indigenous peoples,” a broad term for people who existed in a land before they were colonized, does exactly that.

Christopher Columbus was a vile pendejo whose torture and genocide of my ancestors was so disgusting that he was arrested and tried for horrific acts that included live dismemberment, cannibalism and sexual crimes even against children. In 1500 Columbus wrote,

“A hundred castellanoes are easily obtained for a woman as a farm...and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from about nine to ten are now in demand.”

Bartolome de Las Casas was a Spanish priest and contemporary of Columbus who detailed many of his abuses. After watching Columbus and his men dismember, decapitate and otherwise murder over 3,000 Taino people in a single day wrote,

“Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel...My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write.”

I want day of remembrance for the Iraquios, the Cherokee, the Lenape, the Shawnee. Replacing Thanksgiving with a day of remembrance of the Wampanoag tribe would be a great start, I think.

But the story of Christopher Columbus is the story of the suffering of the Taino, the Arawak, and the Lucayan. Please remember them.

#indigenous people's day #indigenous peoples day #Columbus Day #Christopher Columbus #indigenous people #Taino #Arawak #Lucayan #colonialism #colonizers #They were not fucking Indians

[typhlonectes]

#Columbus Day #Columbus #US history #memes #Politics

[hyperfictionated-individual]

Just replace the American education system with these mfs at this point.

#indigenous peoples day #native american history #columbus day #why tho #who made this #who allowed this #animaniacs #animaniacs reboot #i said what i said

[bad-b1ood]

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happy colitis day

#columbus day #indigenous #politics #fuck it #usa today #yayyy