Welcome to the Coffee Hour / Open Thread. For today's suggested topic lets consider Indigenous People's Day and Columbus Day.
This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. What is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind. If you are new to Street Prophets please introduce yourself below in a comment. Today's Coffee Hour is brought to you by today's Federal Holiday. ... More beyond the fold.
For some Columbus Day is a day of the celebration of the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. For others it has become a day of remembrance of the history of the indigenous peoples effected by the arrival. -
Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy, whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World". Christopher Columbus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- What does this Federal Holiday stand for? Indigenous People's Day or Columbus Day.
What are your thoughts about this holiday? This is an Open Thread and all topics of conversation are welcome.