This is information that is typically absent in K schools. These resources include sample lesson plans, books and videos that reflect the diversity of Native American peoples and tribes. For example, one lesson plan from IllumiNative provides opportunities for students to learn about Indigenous Peoples Day and at the same time explore ways to honor and protect the land, air and water.
Such lessons are important, as they address the ways in which conservation of natural resources is essential to the economic self-determination and self-sufficiency of Native nations. Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in.
Indigenous Peoples Day is celebrated in many states across the U. And yet this day is still shared with a genocidal maniac," she wrote on Twitter. Added New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries in a tweet : "Millions of indigenous people lost their lives during the genocide committed against them in the Americas.
Today we pause in solemn recognition of this human tragedy. And recommit to uplift the original occupants of this land. Meanwhile, others have opted to recognize both Columbus and the Indigenous simultaneously. Their decision did not go over well with Italian-American activists, who protested the change. So people need to understand that's why it's there, and then let's sit down and figure out where to go from here.
Despite Explorer's Violent Legacy. FB Tweet More. I tell my students that this is a very uncomfortable part of U. The Black Lives Matter movement is a great analog because some people want to ignore the fact that police act in ways that are racially discriminatory. In the same way, the majority in the United States prefer not to think about the fact that most of this country was forcibly taken away from the Indigenous populations.
The time for a reckoning with the unjust treatment of Native American people is overdue. Co-president of Natives at Harvard College. A lot of changes that are happening now we owe to Black Lives Matter protesters. It has really forced a lot of people in power and a lot of regular American citizens to reckon with the fact that our country has very racist origins and structures in place today. But I am much more hopeful for change at the state level than I am at the national level. Many people know that Columbus never actually set foot in the U.
Even celebrating Columbus as the one who discovered America is completely false. It is time to recognize the full and true history of the United States, which was founded on the stealing of Native lands and the deaths and disenfranchisement of Indigenous peoples, who populated North America and the rest of the continent. But the truth is that Indigenous people were here before the settlers. Even if Columbus Day were to reach its end in name, the things it represents— the doctrine of discovery, manifest destiny, etc.
The specter of Columbus will not be exorcised so easily from the land. After centuries of the United States and Canadian governments attempting to make our culture, lives, and sovereignty illegible or nonexistent, we are still able to find one another wherever we go. I have been heartened too by the non-Indigenous people who have joined us in celebration, reflection, and reckoning with the difficult histories of colonialism and genocide.
If we are to heal, to find a way to live here together, these processes are indispensable. While renaming Columbus Day to honor Indigenous peoples will not do this alone, I believe it has created a new space to allow for such connections and work to begin.
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