Indigenous Peoples Day

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/11/2021
  

  Native Americans Explain the Significance of Indigenous Peoples' Day

  "It is difficult to grapple with the complete accomplishments of individuals and also the costs of what those accomplishments came at," said Mandy Van Heuvelen, the cultural interpreter coordinator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

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• 10/22/19
  

  Citations Are a Metaphor for Erasure in American History

  by Anne C. Bailey

  Last week, the Washington Post failed to cite my book in an article about "The Weeping Time." Here's why such oversights matter. 

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• 10/18/19
  

  The History Briefing on Indigenous Peoples Day: Why Fewer Places Celebrate Columbus Day

  by Elisabeth Pearson

  As Trump's statement this past week revealed, despite the increasing deamnds since the 1990s to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s day, the public narrative of the holiday is still contested.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day should mean honoring migrants’ rights

  by Liz Ellis

  People must have a human right to migrate and to move across borders that historically crossed them.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate

  This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/10/10
  

  Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  by Malinda Maynor Lowery

  The growing recognition and celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day actually represents the fruits of a concerted, decadeslong effort to recognize the role of indigenous people in the nation’s history.

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• 10/7/18
  

  Which Presidents – If Any – Did Right by Native Americans?

  by Walter G. Moss

  And the disheartening truth about the policies and attitudes of some of our greatest presidents.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-6-17
  

  How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol

  by William Francis Keegan

  Columbus likely would have slipped back into obscurity if not for American hubris.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-9-17
  

  The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero

  by Edward Burmila

  How the founding fathers turned Christopher Columbus, a mediocre Italian sailor and mass murderer, into a historical icon.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  10-8-17
  

  Trump Praises 'Arrival of Europeans' In Columbus Day Message, Doesn't Mention Native Americans Who Were Slaughtered

  In his final Columbus Day proclamation as president, Obama recognized the suffering endured by the Native American people.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  

  The History Behind the Movement to Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples' Day

  by Arica L. Coleman

  Though the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day was celebrated in the early 1990s, the idea took shape many years earlier.

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• SOURCE: KPCC
  8-30-17
  

  LA votes to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day

  Los Angeles joins San Francisco and several other cities nationwide in honoring native Americans in lieu of Columbus.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-10-16
  

  The war against Columbus Day

  A growing number of communities are now ditching the traditional Columbus Day holiday in favor of Indigenous People’s Day.

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• 10-6-16
  

  Perils of Indigenous People’s Day

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Students often think Native Americans are all dead.  Why? Teachers only teach what happened to them as victims from long ago.  

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• 2-3-16
  

  Brown University professors vote to recognize "Indigenous People's Day"

  It’s in reaction to protests against Columbus Day.