Music Monday: Redbone – “Come And Get Your Love” (LIVE)
Posted By RichC on October 11, 2021
In keeping with a inclusive music from the 1970s for Music Monday, you 
can’t get much more American melting-pot inclusive than the band Redbone. The Mexican-American / Native American rock band even gets their band name from a Cajun term for “mixed-race” person … and who doesn’t love 
their stage show and music? Here’s their 1974 song “Come And Get Your Love.”
https://youtu.be/Dj0drevGOgA
Coincidence Music Monday post on this Columbus Day? 😉
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. On October 8, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden, the first U.S. President to formally recognize the holiday, signed a presidential proclamation declaring October 11 to be a national holiday. It is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October, and is an official city and state holiday in various localities.
It began as a counter-celebration held on the same day as the U.S. federal holiday of Columbus Day, which honors Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Many reject celebrating him, saying that he represents “the violent history of the colonization in the Western Hemisphere,” and that Columbus Day is a sanitization or covering-up of Christopher Columbus’ actions such as enslaving Native Americans. Indigenous People’s Day was instituted in Berkeley, California, in 1992 …
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