It's an interesting business is that history stuff DD. Very odd how it changes from culture to culture and sometimes generation to generation.The mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot has just removed Christopher Columbus statues from two parks "until further notice," ???
At least 10 states and more than 140 cities now celebrate some version of "Indigenous Peoples Day." Hopefully Chicago will do the same.
The Chicago Tribune posted a photo of several Native Americans who were turned away from the Columbus Day parade in 1970. Seeing this now, I have to say I had no idea Chicago even had any Native Americans. I'm wondering where they had lived, since parts of Chicago have not been kind to any group who is different. Sadly that still holds true.
If I recall the 70's were when I really became aware of the opposite sex, probably spent all my thoughts on them.
If it wasn't for 007 Sean on BYC, I probably wouldn't have given much thought to Indigenous People. Fortunately he opened my mind to them and have I been pursuing their culture ever since.
Still find it odd that in my public schooling, no mention was ever made of Native Americans or even Jews and the Holocaust. Guess in Chicago(and probably elsewhere) we were given only a "sanitized" education.
I'm getting off of my orange crate(platform) now - just makes me wonder what else we were never taught in schools. Some years ago the movie "Hidden Figures," introduced the Black women who were largely responsible for the early success of the space program. At the end of the movie, the audience en masse said "we never knew that."
No wonder I'm nowhere as smart as I might have been- if given privy to this knowledge.
Never knew you could have chickens in Chicago either, although the Chicago neighbors who poisoned our dog (and failed - the vet saved him) would have poisoned them or done horrible things to them as well.
For now I wish I couldmyself for being so stupid.
It's a bit like the Internet these days. Someone writes something, a moderator doesn't like it and it gets deleted. It never happened. Cultures have been deleting those awkward bits of history for years.
We did get taught at least a bit about what happened in America, but strangely we didn't get taught about the atrocities committed by the British in Australia. It's one of the reasons I prefer science.
Lots of moving of 'stuff' and squeegeing of the cellar. Rain had backed off a bit, and sump is not overflowing right now, but we are supposedly in for at least 3 more hours of rain. 
What a world, assumed guilty based on skin color.
