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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. 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.
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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. Faircloth , Colorado State University.
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