🆕 Yizkor for Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day, by Netanel Linzer

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Pogroms & Genocide, 🇺🇸 Indigenous Peoples' Day (2nd Monday of October)

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English vernacular prayer, Indigenous Peoples, mourning, יזכור yizkor

This tefillah is a Yizkor honoring the Taíno Nation and all other Indigenous Americans who were wiped out by Christopher Columbus. It is meant to be said on Indigenous People’s day/Columbus Day. It talks about the suffering the people of America were subjected too and is a prayer asking H-shem to both care for them in death and to tell the whole world what happened.

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	May Hashem remember the souls of the innocent who were killed, murdered, slaughtered, and enslaved, who had to watch their children eaten by animals, and (who) as a people are no longer with us.
	I beg you Hashem don’t let their suffering be their final moments. Let them reside in Heaven and come back in the time of the Mashiaḥ.^[1] At the Resurrection of the Dead. Do not let the murderers and enslavers be celebrated, and let the whole world know the events that occurred. Now let us respond: Amen.

“Yizkor for Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day” was written by Netanel Linzer “around 2016” and was originally published on ritualwell.org.

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1	At the Resurrection of the Dead.

Netanel Linzer

Netanel Linzer, from New York, is a graduate student in history. An Open Orthodox Jew, he grew up in Riverdale Bronx, and attends the HIR shul.

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Hanging, burning and clubbing of Indians by Spanish soldiers (Joos van Winghe). Folio 1 in Bartolomé de las Casas (1474-1566): Regionvm indicarum per Hispanos olim devastatarum accuratissima descriptio, insertis figuris æneis ad vivum fabrefactis

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🆕 Yizkor for Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day, by Netanel Linzer

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