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This Week's CPR

 * 1) Greeting: Circle Greet
 * 2) Activity: Prep for Celebrity Game

Quote of the Week
//“The white man must no longer project his fears and insecurities onto other groups, races and countries. Before the white man can relate to others he must forgo the pleasure of defining them."// - Vine Deloria, Native American activist and author


 * Vine Deloria, Jr.** (March 26, 1933 – November 13, 2005) was an American Indian [|author], [|theologian], [|historian], and [|activist]. He was widely known for his book //Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto// (1969), which helped generate national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the [|Alcatraz-Red Power Movement]. From 1964-1967, he had served as executive director of the [|National Congress of American Indians], increasing tribal membership from 19 to 156. Beginning in 1977, he was a board member of the [|National Museum of the American Indian], which now has buildings in both New York City and Washington, DC. You can read an article on Vine Deloria in the New York Times here.

What is Columbus Day?


Many countries in the [|New World] and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of [|Christopher Columbus]'s arrival in the [|Americas], which occurred on October 12, 1492, as an official [|holiday]. The event is celebrated as **Columbus Day** in the [|United States], as //**Día de la Raza**// in many countries in [|Latin America], as **Discovery Day** in the Bahamas, as //**Día de la Hispanidad**// and //**Fiesta Nacional**// in [|Spain] and as //**Día de las Américas**// (Day of the Americas) in [|Uruguay]. These holidays have been celebrated unofficially since the late 18th century, and officially in various areas since the early 20th century.


 * Columbus Day** first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a [|federal holiday] in 1937. However, people have celebrated Columbus's voyage since the colonial period. In 1792, New York City and other U.S. cities celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. In 1892, President [|Benjamin Harrison]called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on the 400th anniversary of the event. During the four hundredth anniversary, in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets and politicians used Columbus Day rituals to teach ideals of patriotism. (//Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day//)

What is Indigenous People's Day?



 * Indigenous People's Day** (also known as **[|Native American Day]**) is a secular holiday celebrated in various localities in the United States, begun as a counter-celebration to [|Columbus Day]. The purpose of the day is to promote [|Native American culture] and commemorate the history of [|Native American] peoples. The celebration began in [|Berkeley], [|California] as an alternative to Columbus Day, which is listed as a [|federal holiday] in the United States but is not observed as a [|state holiday] in every state.[|[][|1][|]] Indigenous People's Day is usually held on the second Monday of October, coinciding with federal observance of Columbus Day

The idea of replacing Columbus Day with a day celebrating the [|indigenous people of North America] first arose in 1977 from the International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, sponsored by the [|United Nations] in [|Geneva, Switzerland].[|[][|3][|]] In 1990, at the First Continental Conference on 500 Years of Indian Resistance in [|Quito, Ecuador] in July 1990, representatives of Indian groups throughout the Americas agreed that they would mark 1992, the 500th anniversary of the first of the [|voyages of Christopher Columbus], as a day to promote "continental unity" and "liberation".