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Pamela Frantum said: "I have trouble celebrating an historic event if the whole story isn't included, especially when it deals with the removal of a people and their culture."
Just out of curiosity, do you celebrate the 4th of July, or Thanksgiving or Christmas? Or anything at all? Most holidays or triumphs come at the cost of someone's defeat. The 4th of July celebrates the independence of the United States, founded with citizenship limits to white landowners and on land that had previously belonged to eastern tribes of Native Americans most people can hardly name. It is believed that all the "empty" land the settlers found was empty because of the diseases and plagues brought by the first explorers.
Christmas is a Christian attempt to shoulder out the solstice festival and replace it with a Christian holiday. Today, among the mish-mash of burning the yule log, putting up a tree, decorating it with ornaments originally designed to call attention to the wishes and hopes of the household, singing carols, Santa Claus and Jesus' nativity, we have some people who still say "Jesus is the reason for the season". It's a big culture war. Someone's going to win and someone's going to lose.
Mary Baker East Side
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