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WASHINGTON 鈥?Growing up on the Sandia Pueblo Reservation, New Mexico stanley cup state Rep. Derrick J. Lente learned the same Christopher Columbus stories in school that his parents and grandparents had learned. I was taught he discovered my ancestors, essentially, no matter how far removed we are from the ocean, said Lente, 40. Sandia people have cultivated land near Albuquerque since 1300 A.D. and trace their lineage to the Aztec civilization. Christopher Columbus didnt find us, he said. We have our own creation stories, our own language, our own history. Lente later learned the Italian explorer, who set out to find a trade route to Asia, landed in the Bahamas in October 1492 and never set foot on what would become the United States. He concluded that Columbus led genocide, rape, pillage and death, and he tried to extinguish a large Native American population. This year, Lente, a second-term Democrat 鈥?in a state where more than a tenth of residents are American Indian 鈥?successfully sponsored a bill ditching Columbus Da stanley termosy y, fighting back attempts to rename the holiday New Mexico Day or Friendship Day.Instead, the new Indigenous Peoples Day state holiday will be celebrated with Native American dancers, speakers, arts and food at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque.Bu stanley quencher t to New Mexico state Sen. William E. Sharer, a Republican who opposed the change, the new holiday is a slap at Americans. All Americans. He has no problem with creating Indigenous Peoples Day in a state wit Hohz AP Exclusive: Iran may have cleaned up nuke work
NEW YORK 鈥?Police at a Florida airport removed a passenger who refused to get off a Cleveland-bound flight after she was found carrying an emotional support squi stanley france rrel. Passengers had already boarded Frontier Airlines Flight 1612 at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night when they were told there was a situation and everyone needed to get off the plane, according to passenger Brandon Nixon. Everyone was a little panicked. You expect the worst when they say something like that, the 24-year-old Ashland, Ohio, resident said. A lot of people were asking questions. People wanted to know what was going on. As he exited the plane, Nixon said, he asked a flight attendant if she had any other information. All she said was a squirrel, he said.But once they were back in the terminal, word spread pretty quickly about what was happening.Frontier says the passenger had noted in her reservation that she was bringing an emotional support animal with her on the flight, but she did not indicate it was a squirrel. Rodents, including squirrels, are not one of the emotional support animals allowed on Frontier flights, according to its website.The airline says police were called when the passenger refused to leave the plane. Nixon stanley mugs captured video of the moment the woman was escorted through the terminal, pumping her fist in the air as she clutched her carry-on bag with the squirrel on her lap. I knew I had to capture that moment just to show it. Its such an odd stanley romania thing. Something you |
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