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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. Festival of Social Science — Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. The image of Christopher Columbus as an intrepid hero has also been called into question. Upon arriving in the Bahamas, the explorer and his men forced the native peoples they found there into slavery.
Later, while serving as the governor of Hispaniola, he allegedly imposed barbaric forms of punishment, including torture. Several U. Columbus Day was originally observed every October 12, but was changed to the second Monday in October beginning in Local groups host parades and street fairs featuring colorful costumes, music and Italian food. In places that use the day to honor indigenous peoples, activities include pow-wows, traditional dance events and lessons about Native American culture.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in , , and He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did.
Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas. Though he did not really Labor Day will occur on Monday, September 6. Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers and is traditionally observed on the first Monday in September. Let us demonstrate together our collective solidarity with Indigenous peoples by abandoning public commemoration of Columbus in exchange for celebrating Indigenous survivance.
It is only contributing to the continued erasure of Native peoples. There should be no reason to celebrate a man who only brought disease, genocide, and various assault to Native communities. Quite frankly, he discovered nothing, so what is there to celebrate? Not only does this holiday allow the country to educate itself on the loaded history surrounding the holiday, it also celebrates the perseverance and power that Native communities continue to have in the world.
Not only is it a celebration of our people, it is also a celebration of our culture, our food, and our art. That shift would require people to think about the fact that this country was founded on taking over territory that belonged to the Indigenous peoples who are still here and whose ancestors lived here for thousands of years and had their own societies, their own culture, and their own political institutions. We also have to respect the fact that modern-day Indian tribes in the United States are governments; they have sovereignty; they have land; and we still have the right to independence within the U.
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.
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