Columbus Day 2007. Our county claims itself as the birthplace of Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame. We have a statue at the center of town commemorating their journey of "discovery." Hiding behind one of the explorers, almost as the sculptor's afterthought is Sacagawea, the Shoshone Indian woman without whom the Corps of Discovery would have very probably disappeared to violence or starvation. This was the appropriate spot for a vigil today honoring the native american peoples of this country. The "first nations." It is good to see that many in this generation of Americans have set a goal of researching and correcting some of the historical assumptions we have so long taken for granted.
No comments:
Post a Comment