<div dir="ltr">Hi Ghazi,<div><br></div><div>You perhaps saw my column on Columbus Day in the DNews this morning. A copy is attached.</div><div><br></div><div>I did not have space to thank you for giving me the materials on the Doctrine of Discovery.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's hoping for a come-from-behind victory for Hillary in Georgia.</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Dr. S.M. Ghazanfar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ghazi@uidaho.edu" target="_blank">ghazi@uidaho.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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There are indeed parallels between the Columbus/Indigenous Peoples'
story and Israeli oppression of Palestinians ("apocalyptic vision,"
"end-times," "exceptionalism," "manifest destiny," etc.;)--see the
following article coming from Europe ......<br>
<span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://europalforum.org.uk/en/post/1527/Why+we+must+see+Israeli+policies+as+a+form+of+settler+colonialism+By%3A+Ben+White+?mc_cid=8a8b987ed5&mc_eid=14f2b0f47d" target="_blank">http://europalforum.org.uk/en/<wbr>post/1527/Why+we+must+see+<wbr>Israeli+policies+as+a+form+of+<wbr>settler+colonialism+By%3A+Ben+<wbr>White+?mc_cid=8a8b987ed5&mc_<wbr>eid=14f2b0f47d</a><br>
Also see a 2003 article on this subject: </span><br>
<span lang="EN-AU"><a class="m_7114636696096378177moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/14/palestinians-and-native-americans/" target="_blank">http://www.counterpunch.org/<wbr>2003/01/14/palestinians-and-<wbr>native-americans/</a><br>
And here is another piece on Columbus......<br>
<a class="m_7114636696096378177moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/christopher-columbus-myth-giving-161005051835083.html" target="_blank">http://www.aljazeera.com/<wbr>indepth/opinion/2016/10/<wbr>christopher-columbus-myth-<wbr>giving-161005051835083.html</a><br>
Best wishes....<br>
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<div>Courtesy of today's (October 11, 2016) Spokesman-Review</div>
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<h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:48px;margin:5px 0px 20px;font-family:'Chronicle Display A','Chronicle Display B',serif;line-height:1;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'dlig' 1">Spokane
celebrates first Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a gathering
in Riverfront Park</h1>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Through
song, dance and prayer, the indigenous peoples of the
Inland Northwest sent a clear message during a
celebration Monday: We’re still here.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">At a
gathering that began outside Spokane City Hall and ended
on Riverfront Park’s Canada Island, a group of over 100
people celebrated the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day
since the City Council <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/aug/29/city-council-changes-columbus-day-to-indigineous-p/" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">voted in August to rename Columbus Day</a>.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“That
acknowledges for us that we’re still here and we have a
future,” said Dave BrownEagle, a Spokane tribal member
who opened the celebration.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Spokane
is home to one of the largest urban indigenous
populations in the U.S. There are 14,286 enrolled tribal
members in Spokane County according to Toni Lodge, CEO
of the Native Project, representing about 300 tribes.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
celebration included drumming and song from the Salish
School of Spokane, intertribal dances, prayer and
reflection.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“We
celebrate the resilience, the fight, the stamina, the
love that carried each and every ancestor forward,” said
Jo Ann Kauffman in an opening prayer.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
gathering mixed joyful celebration of indigenous
cultures with sober reflection on healing from the
trauma of genocide. Outside City Hall, about two dozen
people of all ages dressed for fancy dancing, grass
dance and jingle dance stepped in a circle to the beat
of a drum.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">On
Canada Island, many young people tried their hand at <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/sep/28/coeur-dalene-tribes-powwow-sweat-exercise-video-fe/" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">Powwow Sweat</a>, a program developed by the
Coeur d’Alene Tribe that reimagines traditional dances
as cardio exercise routines. The island is <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/sep/19/spokane-tribe-given-chance-to-rename-reimagine-can/" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">due to be renamed and reimagined by the
Spokane Tribe of Indians</a> as part of the larger
Riverfront Park redesign.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Kauffman,
a Nez Perce tribal member, <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/aug/25/spokane-council-to-consider-exchanging-columbus-da/" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">approached the City Council</a> about
changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day earlier
this year. She said Monday that truth and reconciliation
were a first step to healing relationships between
indigenous people and settlers.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“He
brought an era of genocide to the Western Hemisphere,”
she said of Columbus.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Many
spoke about the common connection local tribes have with
water and salmon.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Lovina
Louie, a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, had tears in
her eyes as she talked about the Spokane River.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Because
we were put on reservations, we were taken away from the
water. A lot of us are coming back,” she said.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tribal
leaders carried a traditional Salish sturgeon-nosed
canoe built by local artist Shawn Brigman to Canada
Island on Monday as part of the celebration. Brigman, a
member of the Spokane Tribe, has built 16 canoes for
local tribes. Some of the canoes traveled with local
tribal members to North Dakota in support the Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe’s <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-court-denies-tribe-s-request-halt-dakota-access-pipeline-n662926" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">protest of a planned oil pipeline across
sacred sites</a>. </span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Louie’s
was one of six families on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation
recently selected to build their own canoe through a
workshop with Brigman.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17.6px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“When
that canoe touched our water, I could feel our ancestors
welcoming us home,” Louie told the crowd.</span></p>
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Albert Einstein: "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind"
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“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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