There's a scene from a movie called "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," where Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg) is sitting across from Col. Nelson Miles (Shaun Johnston) and discussing who should have control over what territory. Sitting Bull demands the white man depart from his lands that were gifted to him by the great spirits, but Miles counters by pointing out the reality of how Sitting Bull's tribe came to have these lands.
"No matter what your legends say, you didn't sprout from the plains like the spring grasses, and you didn't coalesce out of the ether," says Miles. "You came out of the Minnesota Woodlands armed to the teeth and set upon your fellow man. You massacred the Kiowa, the Omaha, the Ponca, the Otto, and the Pawnee without mercy, and yet you claim the Black Hills is a private preserve bequeathed to you by the great spirit."
It's a fantastic scene that is capped by Miles making it clear that he's not buying the idea that the natives are innocent victims.
"The proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all," Miles says. "Killing each other for hundreds of moons before the white man stepped foot on this continent. You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have conquered you for no less noble a cause."
It's an excellent scene because it highlights a truth that often gets buried by modern sentiments and corporate media. The Native Americans were, for the most part, not the innocent and peaceful people they're portrayed as. They were warlike, often killing or enslaving other tribes in order to take their lands and resources. When the Europeans arrived, as Miles says, it was like another tribe showing up. Ultimately, the European tribe expanded its way across America, trading, merging with, and, yes, killing those who stood in the way.
But rest assured, if these tribes had the tech and leadership of the Europeans, it could, and would, have gone differently.
The reason I make this point is that the left seems to want to use the idea that Western civilization began with a bunch of white people showing up and murdering innocent people because they were greedy like that. In that vein, they want to rewrite history and make celebrating the 1492 landing of Christopher Columbus taboo. Instead, they want that day replaced with "Indigenous Peoples Day."
If you strip all the window dressing, you're left with what is effectively an attack on Western culture. It's a message that says the founding of this nation, its values, and traditions, are all evil and shouldn't be celebrated. Instead, we should remember its victims.
Yes, it's absolutely regrettable that violence and war happened... but that's been a part of humanity since long before Europe was even a concept. It's still happening now, as I write this.
Here's what we do know. Columbus stepping foot in the Americas was the catalyst that brought about what is easily the greatest nation in the history of the world, The United States of America. It is Rome 2.0, an unbelievable and borderline miraculous civilization that's given birth to philosophical, governmental, medicinal, technological, agricultural, and scientific advancements that would look like magic or godlike to people just 100 years ago.
Columbus stepping foot in the Americas might have triggered negatives such as the death of many natives, the slave trade, and more, but you'd be hard-pressed to make a very good argument that the negatives outweigh the positives, and these positives benefit everyone, not just European descendants.
Yet, the left doesn't want you to think that. As you can see, the left is willing to stand in front of people and denounce Columbus and what happened as a result of his coming to the Americas. As Bonchie highlighted in his article, Kamala Harris stood behind a podium and, after saying we're celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day, said that European explorers "ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease."
Happy Columbus Day!
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 14, 2024
Radical left Marxist Kamala Harris thinks that this holiday celebrating the discovery of the Americas and the birth of western civilization is a bad thing. pic.twitter.com/4tZD0PrjXP
Yes, it also ushered in the United States of America, the crown jewel of human civilization, of which Harris is now trying to be the President.
There is no reason why anyone should be ashamed of what happened once Columbus made landfall. It should be a day celebrated throughout the world because it gave the world human advancement at a rate it couldn't have dreamed of through the nation that was founded thereafter. If we want to remember or recognize Native Americans and their culture, that's fine. We can have a time for that, but the way they're being recognized now isn't respectable.
It's just the left using Native Americans as another tool to make Americans feel less patriotic, and thus less likely to stand up against them when they try to fundamentally change the nation to their liking. It's the idea that you should feel guilty for benefiting from what transpired and therefore, you should pull a lever for the people pointing out your guilt.
As you can see, this is ultimately an attack on you.
Don't feel any guilt at all. You're a part of something so big it redirected the course of the human species. Many men and women put a lot of time effort, blood, sweat, tears, and their own lives to build this nation into something that benefits the world.
If Harris and the left think so little of it, then they can leave. They should definitely not run for office here.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated for clarity.
