Native Americans were here before the 'discovery'... 11/6/2017 0 Comments   by E.L. Christianson Jr. Well, we all know some of the truth.  Native Americans were 'here' first.  Native Americans were 'native' to this land, hence the label, Native Americans.  Europeans and Asians and Africans were native to some other land and came here only in recent times.  We all know that much mostly because if our brain functions at any level, we could not avoid knowing this much - although many of us would like to close our eyes to the historical truth. The concept of 'discovering America' is a fraud in every aspect of the 'history' taught to 'Americans'.  The first hint of fraud should surface when, as the story is told, Columbus sailed the ocean blue to the 'new world' to be greeted by people who are already standing on the shore. Skipping past the history of genocide and long string of broken promises, most notably today is the Dakota Access pipeline violation of treaties signed by the federal government in the 1800s.  From Standing Rock to the present, we can see the fraud has continued.   And, as 'we' do every year, we perpetuate the fraud.  This year we 'celebrated' Columbus Day, again.   The largest celebration was in New York City where Fifth Avenue was transformed into the spectacle of the Columbus Day Parade.  This was accompanied by the annual wreath laying at Columbus Circle to commemorated Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage to the new, previously undiscovered world.  The show piece at Columbus Circle is the 13-foot tall marble statue of the 'discoverer' that sits on top of a 26-foot tall granite column.  The president of the United States issued a 'Columbus Day Proclamation'.​  During his statement, Trump did not mention Native Americans but advertised a 'Columbus Day sale' urging 'customers' to purchase the “Make America Great Again” merchandise of their choice for a discounted price. Reports of 'festivities' in our national capital reflect more of the same.  The celebration in Washington D.C. included a parade with Niña, Pinta and Santa María floats, a reenactment of Columbus’ discovery of America, and Native American face-painting for the kids. The celebrations continue into the evening with adults-only firewater stands. The Washington Redskins football team owner, Dan Snyder, has been pleased with the results of the celebrations. “We at the Redskins know the importance of history, and who better to celebrate Christopher Columbus’ amazing achievements than the hometown team of our nation’s capital?” ​ Not everyone is happy with the festivities, though. Cleveland Indians mascot Chief Wahoo stated the event was “Utterly disrespectful.” God, that's the truth !!! First Indigenous Map of Its Kind  United States Map Displays “Our Own Names and Locations from Global Research ”By nativeamericanpride.co ​ Aaron Carapella, a Cherokee Indian, has taken it upon himself to create a map that shows the Tribal nations of the U.S. prior to European contact. The map is of the contiguous United States and displays the original native tribal names of roughly 595 tribes, and of that, 150 tribes are without descendants. Without descendants means that there is no one known to be alive from that tribe and are believed to be extinct. Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Okla., has designed a map of Native American tribes showing their locations before first contact with Europeans. Aaron’s journey to making the Native American Nations map began 14 years ago. At the age of 19, Aaron had already gained a great deal of knowledge from listening to stories from his family, elders from his tribe, and reading books on Native American history. To explain where his knowledge came from Aaron said, “My Grandparents would tell me, you’re part Native American and that’s part of your history. They would give me books to read about different tribes’ histories, so, I grew up with a curiosity of always wanting to learn more about Native American history.” After reading the many books on Native tribes and not finding any authentic type maps which failed to accurately represent the hundreds of modern day and historical tribes, Aaron decided to start creating a map for himself that would be authentic and cultural. “The maps in the books were kind of cheesy, they only had maybe 50 to 100 tribes on them,” said Aaron. The inspiration for the map to depict original tribal names came from a book that he was reading which explained the real names of tribes and reason they were given the names they have today. “I didn’t want to make a map with just tribe’s given names on it. I wanted it to be accurate and from a Native perspective,” said Aaron. The process to collect tribes’ real names led Aaron from books, to making many phone calls to tribes across the country, asking them one seemingly simple question, what is the actual native name of your tribe? “Some tribes, once contacted, wouldn’t know that information,” he said, but they would get him in contact with an elder or someone that would have the information he needed. “Every tribe I’ve contacted, I’ve noticed they are really good about getting back to you about cultural questions, they had a really good response time,” said Aaron. On the map there are approximately 175 merged tribes, listed among the 595. The map displays what others fall short of, to make known the significant fact that is overlooked every day and that is, that tribes inhabited the entire U.S. and not just small portions of it. “It is kind of sad that I can’t find a tribe’s real name because they aren’t here anymore,” said Aaron about learning the truth of what happened to many tribes. Some tribes were victims of genocide, some dwindled away from disease or other life threatening situations and some were merged forcefully or willingly with other tribes to make one large tribe. “Today some small tribes are enumerated under larger tribes, and do not have separate sovereignty. A good example of that is the Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma who recently split from the Cherokee Nation,” said Aaron explaining about how some tribes have merged. “To be honest, in general in the United states, Americans are very ignorant about Native American history and the only time they deal with Native history or reality is when tribes have enough money to fight back against injustice happening to them. In my small way, making this map is to reinforce the true history of the injustice and the genocide that occurred,” Said Aaron. Aaron has not received any funding to create the map and any profit from the map sales will go towards Aaron’s future map projects, which will include an in-depth look at the tribes of the states of California and Washington. A map of the First Nations in Canada is already in the works and close to being complete.