![]() ![]() “We stopped here in transit about seven or eight years ago and had an amazing amount of people on the banks who were curious and were wondering if we were ever going to come back. Traveling up and down the Ohio River, Rising Sun has been a stop for many years. By working his way up the ranks on the ship, he eventually became captain of the Pinta and has continued for 13 years. He followed in his father’s footsteps, who was one of the first captains on board. Sanger is from the British Virgin Islands and started sailing when he was 21. Stephen Sanger, captain of the Pinta, sailed in to Rising Sun on June 15 and was hosting tours of the ship. ![]() So that’s what we try to show them, just to get them thinking a little bit.RISING SUN – A little bit of history came to city’s river shoreline via the Pinta, a replica of the ship Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. "Of course everybody is taught that 1492, Colubmus sailed the ocean blue. "That’s what we like to do in the history class - how every action has a reaction," Nelson said. But Oswego County BOCES summer school Principal Bob Nelson says he made sure to fill in the gaps for the students he brought. The textbooks usually only present it one way."Ĭrew member Collin Foster's lecture about Columbus breezed through the consequences for Native Americans. "You have to hear history from different sides. "I think it's a story that has to be told," Cuda said. Lynn Cuda from Liverpool, who brought her grandchildren to see the ships, says she was glad to see both histories presented. "I understand there are different perspective and we welcome that as an educational institution to hear all history," Niess said. Lee White Maritime Museum Mercedes Niess said her organization is also "about the ships." But she invited NOON to open an informational booth at the entranceway to the ships. The human aspects of it are completely different, but we understand it."ĭirector of the H. "We celebrate navigation, we celebrate the types of vessels that could engage and start trading between the New and the Old Worlds. The Nina in our minds is the space shuttle of the 15 th century," Sanger said. Sanger said he welcomes the "healthy discussion." But he said that's not necessarily what his organization is trying to do. We were nearly exterminated and many tribes were exterminated, and people need to know that the sacrifices made by our people need to be appreciated by the people who came after." "Manifest destiny was the cry, but it also led to our genocide. "It’s important to educate one another on the true history of our country, not just what is expedient or pretty," Roman Ose said. WRVO News Several people protested the replica Christopher Columbus ships in the Oswego Harbor Saturday, playing music and chanting. Renee Roman Ose, a descendant of the Oklahoma Cheyenne, said they were there to teach. Thousands of Native Americans were already here."Īnd on Saturday, protestors surrounded the Nina and Pinta in canoes in the Oswego Harbor. ![]() It’s a huge slap into the face."Īs the ships arrived in Brewerton on Friday, protesters hung a sign over the Route 11 bridge that said "Columbus didn't discover anything. "To make a replica of the ships that did that to our own people and to even let it sail again into these waters isn’t right. "Everything you guys are living on is built on genocide, assimilation and rape," Kahionwinehshon said. Kahionwinehshon, a Native American and member of the Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON), noted that the age of exploration brought with it mass murder, slavery and diseases for the original people of the Americas. ![]() Not all are as eager to celebrate that legacy, however, particularly the claim that Columbus discovered land that was already inhabited. "We celebrate the age of discovery because without that, we as Americans today and in this part of the world would not be here." "He did discover for it the Old World, they knew nothing of this part of the world," Hicks said. Ship cook Jeff Hicks says their mission is to inform people about Columbus and the explorers who followed him. Teaching is the motivation for many of the crew's 14 members, all of whom are volunteers. "They can touch, they can feel and they can imagine what it was like for their forefathers be it on these ships or the Mayflower or whatever to come across the ocean and being that desperate to get out of the old world and find some - a new world and the freedom that the New World had," Sanger said. WRVO News The replica Pinta ship hosted thousands of visitors during its trip to Oswego. ![]()
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