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President Biden became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021, and did so again this year. It falls on the same day as Columbus Day, which was established in part as a way to acknowledge the mistreatment of Italian Americans.
Goodbye, Columbus? Here's what Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans
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Goodbye, Columbus? Here's what Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans
The new holiday is a time of reflection, recognition and celebration of the role Native people have played in U.S. history, as NPR has reported. One way to mark the day — and to learn about Indigenous history year-round — is to learn which Native lands you live on.
Acknowledging an area's original inhabitants and stewards is a valuable process, albeit a complex one, as the National Museum of the American Indian explains. The museum suggests reaching out to local Indigenous communities for guidance involving formal land acknowledgements, which can be offered at the start of public and private gatherings.
The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before
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"Many places in the Americas have been home to different Native Nations over time, and many Indigenous people no longer live on lands to which they have ancestral ties," the museum says. "Even so, Native Nations, communities, families, and individuals today sustain their sense of belonging to ancestral homelands and protect these connections through Indigenous languages, oral traditions, ceremonies, and other forms of cultural expression." ...
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Woke bullshit...... HOW FAR BACK SHOULD WE GO BEFORE WHITIES? 1000 years? 5000,,....
Who should be blamed?
HOMELANDS: absolute idiocy. Who was here before you, and them, and them....
Wrongs were committed by people... Still are....
The indigenous people who still exist should be properly supported.
Reparations? Bullshit... who decides.
How about reparations for all the WHITE people who died fighting to end the Atlantic slave trade????
JacarC
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Nov 11, 2022
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The point is unless you have native ancestry, you are descended from (mostly unwanted) immigrants.
As for reparations, I think the best reparations would be ACTUAL equal opportunities for everyone regardless of race, gender or economic status.
If white people who died in efforts to free the slaves were to get reparations, as you seem to be suggesting, it would seem they would be owed by those whose fortunes are rooted in those who owned the slave.
Good try, still many tribes were not noted!!!
of-the-mountain
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Oct 11, 2022
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Yeah. About half the tribes were completely wiped out by European diseases before the 18th century, and a few more after that. Not all tribes have official recognition, and not all those that are recognized have lands. It's a mess that will not likely be satisfactorily fixed.
I do however appreciate that some efforts are beign made. There is a long way yet to go, but at least things are starting to head in a better direction.
Samish and Lummi tribes. The native name for this island was Swa'lech. There is a street with that name.
JackPedigo
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Oct 11, 2022
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The greater Montreal area where I live is located on Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) territory.
The name Quebec is of Mikmaq origin. It means "Narrow river", refering to the St. Lawrence river in the Quebec City area becoming narrower.
QuidamOutrepont
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Oct 10, 2022
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As far as I know I live on the land of the Clatsop, Chinook, and the Tillamook.
dalefvictor
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Oct 10, 2022
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And the Neskowin.
Mohegan & Mashantucket Indians, luckily they rejected drump as an investor and built magnificent Casinos & hotels that haven't gone bankrupt on their lands, which they have continuously defended from encroachment since the first Europeans showed up....now even reviving their native language, not easy but apparently going well.
AnneWimsey
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Oct 10, 2022
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Do the people own the land or does the land own the people?
FrayedBear
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Oct 10, 2022
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I think with the original people, it was a combination of both, but leaning more towards the land owning them. It would be considered a true ' motherland '. I may just be typing out of my sitting mechanism. It's just a sense I get from my reading and experiences.
@BOBdammit Why should it be different with migrants even if invaders.
Fur traders made the first contact with the Wenatchi Indians who inhabited the Columbia River drainage now in Chelan County, WA. The Wenatchi were semi-nomadic hunters, horsemen and river dwellers who had villages along the Columbia River and Wenatchee River and on Lake Chelan.
Like many other West Coast Indian tribes, the Wenatchi people were relocated to the Colville Reservation in Washington during the 1800's, where they were merged with other native peoples and their languages rapidly vanished.
Most Wenatchi descendants still live on the Colville Reservation today.
LiterateHiker
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Oct 10, 2022
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I definitely support the new holiday. I live in Oklahoma and there are over 50 recognized tribes in Oklahoma. My county alone contains tribal land for the Citizen Band Potawatomas, Kickapoo, Absentee Shawnee, Sac and Fox and Seminole.
For years this county seat town, was famous for its animosity toward the tribes but we finally elected a progressive City commission and now we as well as the tribes are benefiting.
Lorajay
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Oct 10, 2022
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Monongahela Culture. I now live on Lower Chinook land. Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.
silverotter11
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Oct 10, 2022
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I've always loved that name. I don't know anything about the Monongahela, but the name sounds proud and strong. (Which they would have needed to be to live in such country.)
@BOBdammit Same, don't know what it is but it's a wonderful sounding name.
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