Nah we need a whole month to celebrate colonial peoples. Everyone else gets a month so it just makes sense

— Nunc est bibendum (@StarRecycling) October 9, 2023

I quite agree. We need a Vespucci Day. And a Magellan Day. And a Balboa Day. And a Henry Hudson Day. And a Leif Erikson Day. And a de Soto Day. and a John Rolfe Day. And a Captain John Smith Day. And two Pocahontas Days, one for the Powhatan side of her and one for the English side she married into.

And we oughta have days, weeks, and months to honor the indigenous folk. Definitely the Lenape (Delaware, since that's where I live now) week, with maybe three days for the Unlalichtogo (Nanticoke) and two each for the Unami and the Munsee. And I forget how many we need for the Iroquois Confederation. Mohawks and Senecas and Onondagas and such. Is there a difference between a Mohawk and a Mohican? Best be on the safe side. Then there's the Suquehannocks, even if they are all dead. And the Mingos and the Monacans and Pamonkeys and the Shawnees and the Karankawas and the Coahuiltecans and the Croatans and the Creeks and the Potowatamis and the Kickapoos. And the Commanches and Kiowas the Utes and the Paiutes and the Blackfeet and the Cheyenne and the Lakota and the Nez Perce, if not the Pince Nez. We should probably include the Esquimaux too...

You get the idea. Days when we weren't toasting Columbus or some Spaniard or some Portugee or some Frenchy we could be toasting some befeathered fellow who either murdered great-great granddaddy or was murdered in turn, and who mighta even married the deceased's sister or daughter. If there are any days left in the years maybe we can get some work done. Or we could spend it arguing over who we left out.