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DENVER, CO - United Native America will be in Denver, Colorado Oct. 7th to protest the Columbus Day Parade. We will meet with all people that would like to join us at Four Winds Indian Project at 5th and Downing, 205 West 5th Ave. at 8:00 AM Oct. 7th.

        On Oct. 9th, Columbus Day, we will be in Pueblo, Colorado to join groups in their protest. Pueblo is known to be the first place to hold a Columbus Day Parade in this Country. The time has come for all Americans to stand up against the Columbus atrocities toward the Indian Nations he came in contact with, the first one being the Taino Indian Nation.

        Are we as American citizens so blind to the truth of Columbus that we allow for our tax dollars to pay for a national holiday for a mass murderer, kidnapper, enslaver and a thief? As a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, with Italian heritage myself, I take no pride in my Italian heritage in this country. When you look at the millions of tax dollars that have been spent on fighting organized crime in this country and countless television shows glorifying Italian mobsters and my tax dollars paying for Columbus Day, this is a National Sick Joke!

        The Italian community in this country needs to wake up to their overall dirt bag, low life image. you can view this image weekly on HBO with your family. The Italian community is not protesting the image of them that is being portrayed in television and movies. Columbus is the Hitler of America!

        It is another National sick joke, that of all the Federal holidays on the books, not one of them recognize or pay tribute to the American Indians. The so called founding fathers of this country brought about the Federal Government using Indian Government as a guide. Freedom of speech, separation of Governmental powers and Federalism was achieved by observing Indian Governments. It did not come from Europe, Africa, Middle east or Asia.

        There is not one group of people in this country that have suffered or endured any more hardship than the American Indians, nor any race of people on the face of this planet. Slavery around the world and human genocide in world war two is one thing, but the Indians have endured five centuries of genocide and wars fighting for their homeland to live in peace. With all that this great Nation of America has today, came from the American Indians homeland at the expense of the worlds longest holocaust against the Indian race.

        With all the support that the American Indians have given to the Federal and State Governments in the forming of this Country, we should not have to ask for a national holiday. Our ancestors helped the Federal Government come about and achieve it's independence July 4th 1776, we have Thanksgiving Day because of the American Indians and countless more contributions.

        African Americans have proclaimed the confederate flag raciest and should be taken out of schools and public buildings. Not one word in the national news media is said about what the American Indians endured under the United States flag. My question to America is why is the plight of one group of people in this country more important to correct and make amends for what was done to them and completely ignore what was done to the original inhabitants of this land?

        United Native America is calling on all Americans to make this country face up to the inhuman acts committed against the American Indian people. It is time for the genocide of American Indians to stop now, along with the racial exclusion of them in our society today. The Congressional Indian Caucus in Washington DC. is drafting a national holiday bill at this time to bring before Congress after the first of next year, their number is 202-225-3611 ask for Kimberly Teehee or contact JD Hayworth of Arizona, for holiday information on the Internet go to: My Two Beads Worth and visit the email petition site, see the holiday banner.