SeeHearSmellTouchTaste. Go beyond the traditional theater experience with this art installation where you can engage all of your senses in this presentation “spanning virtual reality and animatronics, urban agriculture and arid lands.” Hosted by UA Librarians, this event features members of the School of Art, the Cooperative Extension and Tucson Village Farm, and Arid Lands Resource Sciences. Three experts from different disciplines share their latest ideas at this interactive evening event at Playground Tucson Downtown. Hosted by Playground Bar & Lounge and the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8. 278 E. Congress St. Details here.
Burger Madness Monday From 11 to 5 p.m. Melissa and steve from Nevada Smith Salloon will be serving “crystal burgers” after the burger party is over, wing madness Mondays begin with a dozen wings for just $4. The offer goes until 8 p.m. Every day of the week they offer different special. A great place to save some dimes but get a lot of food. 1175 Miracle Mile. Details here.
This article appears in Oct 4-10, 2018.
Columbus Day for NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES: The Beginning of the their Destruction
At the beginning of the 17th century, there were approximately one hundred (100) independent indigenous populations of Native Americans speaking eight (8) different language groups in what is now the United States of America.
Native Americans had their own language, culture, and religious beliefs. They were cast as non-Christian infidels and uncivilized because of these differences. They also had land, in fact the entire North American Continent, that the emigrating hordes of European barbarians, and their equally barbaric decedents, coveted. In fact, some of our “founding fathers” enriched themselves as land speculators.
These human beings were systematically exterminated, initially by Spain, France, Great Britain, Holland, and Russia, and subsequently by successive generations of European settlers, as well as by the policies of early state (Senator/Governor Wilson Lumpkin of Georgia) and federal administrations (Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson).
President Jefferson, through his federal agents, suggested using the insidious policy of extending unlimited credit to Native Americans for the purchase of goods, and then demanding their lands in payment thereof. In 1803 Jefferson wrote to William Henry Harrison regarding treaty negotiations with Native Americans: “We presume that our strength and their weakness is now so visible that they must see we have only to shut our hands to crush them.” This from a man who 27 years previously, in an historic critique of repressive government, pinned in the Declaration of Independence the incontestable right of man to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In a belated attempt (1832) to check, what appeared to have become the fate of Native Americans, Chief Justice John Marshall declared in Worcester v. Georgia those repugnant and inhumane laws of the Georgia Legislature, directed at the Cherokee Nation, unconstitutional. The avariciousness and flagitiousness of the times, however, were not to be denied. Both the State of Georgia as well as President Andrew Jackson rebuffed the Supreme Court and refused to implement the courts decision.
The high ideals of freedom, self determination, and the pursuit of happiness, enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, were for those who were white and Christian and of European ancestry…………
………..a Policy of Genocide unparalleled in human history, for approximately four hundred years.
We look at today’s highly technological world with tears in our eyes. Our technological successes have been astounding; our success at understanding ourselves and each other…a resounding failure…..Greed and bigotry and hate are alive and well. If there are worlds yet to be discovered, let them remain far from our vitiating reach.