President Joe Biden is the first president to issue a proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Biden issued the proclamation on Friday, recognizing Monday as Indigenous People’s Day, and marking the first time a U.S. president has done so.
“Our country was conceived on a promise of equality and opportunity for all people — a promise that, despite the extraordinary progress we have made through the years, we have never fully lived up to,” Biden wrote in the proclamation. “That is especially true when it comes to upholding the rights and dignity of the Indigenous people who were here long before colonization of the Americas began.”
Biden added that respect for tribal sovereignty and self-governance has been a priority of his administration, noting that he issued a memorandum reaffirming treaty obligations to American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Nations in the first week of his administration.
“History demonstrates that Native American people — and our nation as a whole — are best served when tribal governments are empowered to lead their communities and when federal officials listen to and work together with Tribal leaders when formulating federal policy that affects tribal nations,” Biden wrote.
“The contributions that Indigenous peoples have made throughout history — in public service, entrepreneurship, scholarship, the arts, and countless other fields — are integral to our Nation, our culture, and our society,” he continued.
The second Monday of October has also been a federal holiday to celebrate Columbus Day since October 1971, and Biden issued a separate proclamation for that on the same day.
“More than 500 years ago, after securing the support of Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II, Christopher Columbus launched the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria from the coast of Spain in 1492,” the proclamation read. “While he intended to end his quest in Asia, his 10-week journey instead landed him on the shores of the Bahamas, making Columbus the first of many Italian explorers to arrive in what would later become known as the Americas.”
Biden also recognized the consequences of the exploration in the same proclamation.
“For Native Americans, western exploration ushered in a wave of devastation: violence perpetrated against native communities, displacement and theft of tribal homelands, the introduction and spread of disease, and more,” the proclamation stated.
By contrast, former President Donald Trump had referred to people who mentioned ramifications from the exploration as “radical activists,” and accused them of trying to hurt Columbus’ legacy.
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Yes, According to Joe and the history rewriters, Columbus should never have landed in America, nor Anglo Saxon ideas of Runnymede Magna Charta ideas allowed into north America, leaving only strong warring disunited Native America tribes later on to take on Tojo, Hitler, Stalin and Mao. All hail indigenous Castro! What a wonderful world it would be? These Liberal media reinvented noble savages were robbing, scalping, killing, and enslaving each other’s tribes long before the white man showed up. The only thing that Anglo Saxons are guilty of is just doing the things humanity has been doing for centuries, but doing it more efficiently like other things such as technology, science, medicine and agriculture and theology, not to mention planting the seeds of American Democracy that improved the entire world and made this nation the defender of human rights, unlike China, the Soviet Union, and Middle East countries Joe so loves to engage in social and financial intercourse with to his own enrichment.
Race traitor Joe, AGAIN like his mentor he sold his race out to Obama, sells the truth like a used car salesman in desperate need of a sale of a hail damaged car to buyer he would make blind. They continue to celebrate the losers and defeated of historical competition and in so doing would make losers of us all, just like them who have to steal elections in lies like the ones he spouts indigenously, lying being his own and Democrat tribe’s native tongue.
The reality which we are forced to admit whether or not, for leftist, Socialist democrats political agendas , whatever they intend for this country, ” As John Adams once said, ” Facts are Stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dicates of our passions, they cannot alter the State of facts and Evidence. ” Native American Indians took land And enslaved the inative indians and took their land the old fashioned way, the native American Indians took it from the weaker tribes, Thank Columbus for discovering this land.!
Facts never matter to the left though.. Never have, never will.
You’re all up to speed on what needs to be done when running a country aren’t you, Joe?
The only thing he’s up to speed on is the biden crime family.
The only Speed the Bidens are up to is the methamphetamines Joe and Hunter blow up their noses. If a drug test was required before taking office, Joe would be still out in the cold, inside his basement and Hunter naked and unconscious inside a back street hotel room.
I doubt he’s even up to date on what his favorite ice cream is, without having his handlers tell him.
This jackass can declare this day anything he wants…and… just like… EVERYTHING… else he says I wont listen or do. As far as I’m concerned this …IS… Columbus day until the day I die.
Its true for All those who declare their Love and patriotic emotions for this country, no matter wha democrat President , Joe Biden wants us to call Clumbus Day.. God Bless America .
Maybe we should suggest “Clueless Day” as an option?
For most dems, clueless day is a YEAR LONG event!
as far as I can tell Ituser… it’s been decades.
Responding to ggfilthy : thank you for not allowing leftist democrat president, Joe Biden to dishonor Clumbus day Salute, for taking your stand against democrar President Joe Biden’s weak attempt To dishonor Clumbus day.
Same here.. Let’s hope we don’t see MORE columbus statues tore down.
The democrat Marxist party of America has turned its back on reality and has declared their ‘ Welcome to all immigrants and welcome to the Welfare System of America where you can dwell for ever living off The Working middle Class, Welcome!.But as Fredrick Basitiat, THE LAW, wrote, ” Nothing that the Government gives to Another Class of people ithat is taken by force, to the Government, can the Government give to another Class of people, to paraphrase Fredrick Bastiat What was fogotten in this providing Welfare to all of these illegal Immigrants is, What do these immigrants from all over the world, have to contribute to the ” Welfare of this Country? In most cases, the only thing these immigrants have to offer is just another group going on the welfare rolls and of course, just another vote for the leftist democrat party.
Indigenous Peoples are distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced.
This is an honor to “Illegal immigrants” that the corrupt puppet president Biden and his handlers are importing, encouraging, supporting, protecting and now allowing them to vote without any identification. Puppet Biden and the traitorous Democrat Party are NOT the ones being made to support the illegal immigrants. It is forced upon we the taxpayer against our will. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Response to ” Scruffy..US.N Retired comments America was once a new World with unoccupied wilderness a area as yet wilderness waiting to be settled. At this time in America’s beginning we needed immigrants to establish this country and to devolop it into a nation among nations.But the need and a welcome to all immigrants was vital to settle this country but this is no longer the case of Welcoming all immigrants as at this nations beginnings and the Poem on the Statue of Liberty is no longer true . The poem say, “Give me your tired, your poor,your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…to welcome all immigrants who can contribute something to this country besides just another person to be added to America’s welfare rolls
And as long as we keep a welfare state, WE SHOULD NOT KEEP OPEN BORDERS…
It’s Columbus Day. End of discussion.
What he did is as stupid as making those four new quarters with women on them.
It is time for secession.
“For Native Americans, western exploration ushered in a wave of devastation: violence perpetrated against native communities, displacement and theft of tribal homelands, the introduction and spread of disease, and more,” the proclamation stated.
That sounds plausible if you don’t actually know the history of indiginous people. There was plenty of violence, displacement and theft of lands, and other atrocities done by native tribes to other native tribes. The idea that all the native people lived happy, peacefilled, all tribes co-existing in blissful care and love is hogwash. They fought, they killed, they stole, they made slaves of each other, etc.
If Biden, as a self-professed Catholic man, is a member of the Knights of Columbus he ought to turn in his card and stop claiming that membership. He lives up to zero of their ideals.
Just read the journals of the Spanish Conquistadors and the blood soaked walls of the sacrificial altars atop the Mexican pyramids where youg virgin women were sacrificed to the great snake god Quetzalcoatl. Perhaps we should over modern women such equal rights.
That would be fun to see…. Teleport them all back in time to the days OF the aztecs’ and myans, and see how long those snowflakes last.
Anything to attack America and Traditional American Values.
This idiot doesn’t understand all are created equal
he and his Marxist that divide the country
I really wish that certain groups, whose minds are considered uncritical and thereby whose votes are considered easily obtained and taken for granted, would begin to recognize the difference between recognition and pandering. And for the self-appointed leaders, who market influence and grant themselves concessions on the backs of their constituents, if they searched their souls and realize just how much better the world is for the existence of the idea and place called America, the debt we owe to the discoveries of exploreres with even the most checkered histories, they’d finally get the peace and satisfaction they claim to seek. But there’s no margin, no percentage,, no gain in that…
You want to know how stupid this is? According to nationaltoday.com:
Today is also:
Columbus day, national coming out day, national sausage pizza day, Cardi B’s Birthday, General Pulaski Memorial Day, International Day of the Girl child, It’s my party day (seriously), National Kick Butt day, national Kimberly Day (if you are named Kimberly or anything like it), national online bank day, and Southern Food Heritage Day.
But tomorrow! national pulled pork day and gumbo day!
Honestly, why is Columbus Day even a thing? He never set foot on the North American continent… just the Bahamas…
Let the indigenous people have their day….. but on that note, if you were born in America, you are “indigenous”…. so “Happy ‘ME’ Day”!
If only once biden would have the cajones to speak his mind not what his puppeteer tells him to say.
Joe can not do that anymore, his mind is no longer under his control. And Jill continues to let him be the puppet !
National Potato president day.
WHAT mind? IMO his rotted away months ago…
democrat President Barack H Obama knew exactly What jhe was doing When he had Joe Biden as his Vice PresidentVice President was Barack H. Obama’s Clown and was always good for a laugh or two..poor old Joe Biden, didn’even know it.
Colonization of the Americas first came when the people labeled ‘indiginous’ came across the land and ice bridges or sailed across the seas from Asia, Europe, and Africa. They came and built, made war, kept slaves, long before ‘discoverers’ like Columbus, the Vikings and others that we are learning about came along. The settlers were no more interlopers than the people they met on the shore. History cannot be changed, it can be rewritten to suit the fashion of the day but eventually the truth always comes to light. Some persons believe in the idealized world that never was and try to place blame for change on someone. Without that change they would not be here to complain about it!
Ben Franklin once Said, ” Only a Virtuous people Are Capable of Freedom, As a Nation Becomes More Corrupt And Vicious, They Have More Need Of Masters. ” HasAmdrica reached the final Stage Of ” Corruption and Vicious, that they are In Need Of Masters.??
Opposition to the statue of Columbus as a representative of an era of atrocities and genocide that decimated Indigenous populations in the Americas??? Well, President Biden & Philly’s Mayor Kenney now need to equally address every conflict & war our country has been involved in ever since… and then some! Are you kidding me?
Response to xartman59
Isn’t it Ironic that a former democrat president, Franklin D . Roosevelt, should refer to immigrants coming from different parts of the world exposing their ideologies and personal political preferences on to All Americans . Here is What democrat presicent, Franklin D. Roosevelt said about immigrants, ” I have no use for an ‘Hypinated Americans , let him be an American , To paraphrase Franklin D. Roosevelt thoughts, too bad that the Present democrat president doesn’t feel the same way about immigrants today.
IF he’d said that in this day and age, they’d have called for him to be canceled!
It’s actually laughable to see dummycrats side with the American Indians and they are MORE guilty of dumping on the American Indians than the republicans are. It was dummycrat Andrew Jackson who was responsible for the Trail of Tears. And it was dummycrat policy Manifest Destiney that caused all American Indians west of the Mississippi to lose their land and which also led to the Mexican War. Once again stupid senile ********* Joe shows just how really stupid he is.
We wonder why the democrat ,socials,-Communists have been so succeesful in turning America into a Leftist regine controlled by a leftist democrat party President, perhaps Ben Franklin had a reason for America has fallen to the leftists when he once said, ” Only a Virtuous people are Capable of Freedom, As Nations Become More Corrupt And Vicious, They Have More Need Of Masters . ” Has the American People A Need For Masters.?
Since good old Jose just classified himself as an invader of the indigenous lands he should be the first to lead by example and leave the country along with all those that support him.
He misspelled Indigent