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Columbus Day marks the day when America was “discovered.” This is wrong. Columbus day ignores thousands of years of native Americans living in the Americas in favor of a Euro-centric narrative. The website Native-Lands attempts to document which native American people lived in your place before Columbus “discovered” them.
The European history of Detroit says the first recorded contact between Europeans and the Great Lakes Indians occurred between 1534 and 1542, when Jacques Cartier of France explored the St. Lawrence River to discover gold or silver. In 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Detroit. But this ignores the history of the Mound Builders who lived in the area before the Native American tribes.
The Detroit area has populated by as many as seven different native peoples before Columbus arrived.
The Peoria people are the descendants of those who created the great mound civilizations in the central U.S. 2,000 thousand years ago. Their territory ranged from Jefferson City, MO to Madison, WI over to Detroit and Toledo.
The Anishinabewaki native Americans populated a territory that stretched from Regina, Saskatchewan to Ottawa, Toronto, Detroit and Minneapolis.
Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi) people lived in the Chicago area and ranged to Detroit, up the Door coast of Wisconsin and down the Mississippi river to near St. Louis MO.
Myaamia (Miami) native American people lived in an area that runs from the Door peninsula in Wisconsin down the Mississippi river into Kentucky and along the Ohio river to West Virginia and up to Detroit, on east into Ontario.
The Wyandot people call the eastern half of Michigan from the Mackinaw area down to Detroit and over to Cleveland their home.
Meškwahki·aša·hina (Fox) native people called Southeastern Michigan home. They inhabited the area from Detroit to Battle Creek, into Indiana and over to Toledo.
Mississauga people call the area around Lake Erie home. They ranged from Detroit east to London, ON, Buffalo NY, and Lake Ontario from Toronto to near Ottawa. Their range extended all the way to north Saulte Ste. Marie, CA on Lake Superior.
This Columbus Day, why not take some time and explore the cultures of the indigenous people who lived where you live before Columbus “discovered” America.
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Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.
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Monday is Memorial Day in the United States. Many Americans have the day off because Memorial Day is a federal holiday. The holiday commemorates the military personnel who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. The first Memorial Day was organized by a group of formerly enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina, shortly after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865. They held a parade and a picnic at a former Confederate prison camp, where they reburied the Union soldiers who had been hastily interred there.
In 1868, General John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a veterans’ organization, proclaimed May 30 as a nationwide day of remembrance. He issued General Order No. 11 on May 5, 1868. The order urged Americans to lay flowers and flags on the graves of Union soldiers. On that day, more than 20,000 graves of Union and Confederate soldiers were decorated at Arlington National Cemetery.
Over time, Decoration Day became Memorial Day and expanded to include all U.S. military casualties from any war or conflict. In 1971, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which moved Memorial Day from May 30 to the last Monday in May, creating a three-day weekend for federal employees.
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It is Labor Day in the U.S. In the past, Labor Day was a celebration of working men and women. On Labor Day 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic havoc, the percentage of people actually employed in the U.S. has recently hit an all-time low.
In August 2020 (the last full set of data) the BLS says the employment-population ratio stood at 56.5%. For comparison, the rate stood at 59.8% in December 2016, before Trumpie and his fellow travelers started their reign. That means that 45.4% of the civilian noninstitutional population – did NOT have a job.
This number is an improvement from the historically low 51.6% we saw in April 2020 – there are still over 7 million people not working.
24/7 Wall St. reviewed unemployment at the metropolitan area level for USA Today to identify the cities with the worst unemployment problem. It is not a big surprise that Michigan has been hard hit. They ranked 4 Michigan metro areas in their list of areas most impacted by the COVID-19 layoffs.
| Battle Creek | Flint | Detroit metro | Muskegon | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Impact | 33 | 21 | 12 | 11 |
| Unemployment rate | 15.1% | 16.6% | 17.7% | 17.8% |
| YTD change | -8.7% | -8.2% | -19.0% | -8.0% |
| COVID cases | 699 | 813 | 11,83 | 629 |
| Poverty rate | 18% | 18.8% | 14.3% | 15.8% |
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Real unemployment at the height of the 2020 recession (so far) has reached levels not seen since the Great Depression. In April 2020, the real unemployment rate, including discouraged, marginally attached, and part-time, was 22.8%. The unemployment rate during the Great Depression surpassed 25% from March 1933 to June 1933.
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