{"id":2542,"date":"2017-09-01T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T01:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2017-09-01T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T01:46:16","slug":"los-angeles-says-goodbye-columbus-ricochet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Says, &#8220;Goodbye, Columbus&#8221; \u00a0|\u00a0 Ricochet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So, I wonder if Mr O\u2019Farrell wants to celebrate these peoples and civilizations. Maybe, he just wants to celebrate native peoples in North America, like the Iroquois. Many Native American activists contend that the Iroquois and their Confederacy inspired our founders in the creation of our republic (although this is doubtful since the Iroquois, like the Inca, had no written language). Then again, Mr O\u2019Farrell may not wish to celebrate the Iroquois, who were a militant and aggressive group, constantly making war against others. This was usually done in pursuit of wealth, such as the Beaver Wars, in which, among other things, the Iroquois decimated the Huron (also known as the Wyandotte \u2014 Mr. O\u2019Farrell\u2019s tribe) all just to gain control of the fur market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.com\/452308\/los-angeles-says-goodbye-columbus\/\">Los Angeles Says, &#8220;Goodbye, Columbus&#8221; \u00a0|\u00a0 Ricochet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I wonder if Mr O\u2019Farrell wants to celebrate these peoples and civilizations. Maybe, he just wants to celebrate native peoples in North America, like the Iroquois. Many Native American activists contend that the Iroquois and their Confederacy inspired our founders in the creation of our republic (although this is doubtful since the Iroquois, like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Los Angeles Says, &#8220;Goodbye, Columbus&#8221; \u00a0|\u00a0 Ricochet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,125,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-democrats","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}