Saturday, November 11,

Comanche Indian David Yeagly is Important Unused Ally in Defense of Columbus!!!!!

The ANNOTICO Report

I am a moderate/independant in most all matters, and therefore am often found in agreement , and at odds with the same people frequently. Not Strange. Just because I agree with a person on ONE Issue does not make me a supporter of ALL their Points of View!!! Or even Any One Other Issue!! "Politics makes for Strange Bedfellows" :)

David Yeagley might be a little too conservative for me on many matters, but I find him to be an IMPORTANT ALLY in Defense of Columbus. He is of Comanche Heritage, Handsome Indian Features, Indian Hair Style, with Well Thought Out Comments, that speak with Persuasion, that yet is Soft Spoken.

Yeagley is FAR more Knowledgeable on Columbus AND Indigenous Native Americans than anyone that I know of in the Italian American Community. I am Enormously impressed with the degree to which he references and documents his statements and claims.

David travels at HIS OWN Expense to Denver to Support Italian Americans, and offered at his own expense to participate in the New York Columbus Parade, but was not invited.

David Yeagley is One of the Most Important Resources that the Italian American Community has at it's disposal, and yet despite his willingness, is not being utilized!!!!!!!!

Why NIAF?????- -Why OSIA ????- - Why UNICO????- -Why NIAC???- -Why Columbus Day Parade Committee??

One would think they would be clever enough to be clamoring for his participation?????

Look at the article below, Prepare to be Impressed!!!!

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It is at :

http://vdare.com/yeagley/

061109_columbus.htm

Columbus Is Back in Denver!

Varde.Com

By DavidYeagley

November 09, 2006

...Here's evidence that things sometimes really do get better too.

The Columbus Day Parade is again alive and well in Denver, Colorado (1), despite being shut down by anti-Americans, (Audios and Videos of Parade and Commentary from Rocky Mountain News) (2), from 1992 to 2000 (3).

Its return is a credit to the steadfast respect for freedom and American values shown by Italian Americans (4) in Colorado. Theirs is an untold story of dedication which, if known, every American would support.

In celebration, I decided to go to Denver this year, 2006, and support the parade.

You might wonder: what's a Comanche Indian (5) doing at a parade celebrating the man who brought Europe to America and hell to the Indians?

But I say the real question is: Why blame Columbus (6)for the last 514 years of history in the Western Hemisphere?

If there's to be any objection to what's happened since that fateful day of October 12, 1492 on the island of Lucayos, the fault lies with those native people who accepted Columbus so graciously, not with the handful of foreign, civilian adventurers who came ashore....

Columbus never met any REAL American Indians (like Comanche, Cheyenne, Sioux, etc. He met only Caribbean Indians).....

The Taino were fascinated with the white, bearded foreigners and their odd clothing. After all, the Taino wore nothing. And the Taino had no disposition of fear or mistrust.Columbus described them as "very friendly," [ Journal of Columbus; October 11; (7)] and said that "they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force."

The name "Taino" (tah-ee'-no) was, in the language of the natives, their word for "good," or "noble." Supposedly, the Taino consciously eschewed violence and war. Apparently that's why they migrated north, away from their Arawak relatives of Venezuela. Perhaps they were driven away. Perhaps this is why they gave Columbus the impression that the other Arawak Indians of the islands, the Caribs, were horrid, violent cannibals.

So, the good guys let Columbus in. The peace loving Taino Indians opened the door to the tragedy of the next five centuries.

I can accept this story. Indeed. But let's not blame Columbus for being an aggressor. In fact, I'm rather fascinated with the vision of Columbus. Columbus was a risk taker. Columbus was willing to dare.

["Sail On" (8)] is how great things are accomplished in the world.

I thought I'd make a trip to Denver and say that, as an Indian, particularly as a Comanche a people so well known for "exploration" in the Southwest [The Comanche migrated/explored from as far north as Montana and Oregon to Oklahoma;(9) (along with plunder and hunting!) I should lend my support to a cultural hero.

While I was there, I learned how deeply older Italians feel about the Columbus Parade. Denver has been celebrating Columbus since 1905. I met an Italian lady there, Mickie, who was born in Brooklyn, NY. Her father was an immigrant, who wanted the American Dream for his children. Mickie was in her 70s. She told me, "My father never saw the dream. When Roosevelt declared a national holiday for Columbus in 1937, my father said, Well, maybe They'll like Italians now." She was so humble and sincere I wished the world could have heard her.

Well, I made sure at least Denver would hear something about this from me. The Italians and I held a press conference on Monday, October 2, the week of the parade. Denver TV and news media were there. ABC affiliate 7 News posted a Video Report of the Conference (10). Rocky Mountain News (11), the Denver Post (12) YourHub.com (13) and Denver's CBS 4 posted several videos (14) about the actual parade. (I was on Mike Rosen's 850 KOA radio show (15) earlier that morning, just before Governor Bill Own (16).

I feel the protest against Columbus has been created by men with no vision, with very small minds, and men with a certain parasitical spirit.

There were three representatives from the Transforms Columbus Day Alliance (17) in the audience (all non-Indian rabble rousers.I sincerely appealed to their personal lives. "Which of you has experienced anything of the grandeur (18) , the magnificence, inspiration (19) , the glory, of anything remotely comparable to that of Christopher Columbus?"

They were of course, silent. (Afterwards, the Honorary Vice Consul of Italy, Maria Scordo Allen (20) who was present at the press conference told me she had never heard such a perspective before.) I wanted these protesters to see how truly small they appear in reality.

I also questioned them about the effects of their perspective. "Have you considered the effect of your prolonged resentment on young people?" I told them that their negative world view was pernicious. Nothing stifles the natural aspirations of young people than a negative approach to life. Nothing is so crippling to their natural ambitions than a hateful attitude toward life in the guise of historical justice.

As the "discussion" continued, I heard one of them pronounce platitudes straight from the Communist Manifesto . I said, "What are you, a liberal Commie?". So the news media seized the opportunity to declare that the discussion denigrated into "name calling." (The opponents called me "racist.")

Interestingly, no American Indian Movement representatives, like Ward Churchill (21) or Glenn Morris, condescended to appear at the press conference. I think it is terribly important that we Indians dissociate ourselves from the Guilt Lobby (22) social upheavals. We have enough problems to overcome without associating ourselves with marginal academic riff-raff.

The Italians told me later that the news reports were surprisingly fair, considering those of recent years. That sad fact made me shudder a bit, because I felt some major points were missed, and I was definitely misrepresented in the Rocky Mountain News. I blogged (23),about my Columbus Parade (24) support, before and after the press conference (25).

But one glorious fact remains after all this: the Columbus Day Celebration is back.....

Dr. David A. Yeagley [badeagle@badeagle.com] is an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation, Elgin, Oklahoma. His articles appear in The American Enterprise. com, FrontPageMagazine.com, and on his own Web site BadEagle.com, and he is a regular speaker for Young America's Foundation.

1. The Columbus Day Parade is again alive and well in Denver, Colorado

[http://www.denverpost.com/

search/ci_4400102],

2. Audios and Videos of Parade and Commentary from Rocky Mountain News [

http://www.denver-rmn.com/

audio/columbus/

3. From 1992 to 2000

[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpsrv/

aponline/20001006/aponline210044_000.htm]

5. What's a Comanche Indian

[http://vdare.com/yeagley/

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