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We’re Still Here: Decolonize Your Mind About Indigenous People This Thanksgiving

November 28, 2019 by Maile Arvin, Truthout Leave a Comment

This article was originally published at Truthout under the title "The Future is Indigenous: Decolonizing Thanksgiving" and is reprinted here with permission. In 2015, a video meme circulated prior to Thanksgiving, featuring YouTube personality Franchesca Ramsey humorously breaking down the actual history of the holiday. A wet blanket to her family's Thanksgiving dinner, … [Read more...]

7 Things US History Class Should Have Taught Every American About Indigenous History

November 16, 2019 by Halee Kirkwood Leave a Comment

The history of people indigenous to the North American continent is often glossed over in education. We are badgered with the legend of Native benevolence to the pilgrims who landed on the East Coast on Thanksgiving. If Indigenous history is covered, students are likely to hear a tragic but vague narrative of massacre, disease, and death, a narrative devoid of the specific … [Read more...]

Why White North Americans Need to Understand Ourselves as “Settlers”

November 4, 2019 by Shannon Weber Leave a Comment

If you’re white, this land was not made for you and me. Like many white North Americans, I grew up with a vague idea of where my ancestors came from. In my case, they were scattered across Western Europe, and I was fascinated by what their lives must have been like. But I had no real connection to what it means, culturally, to be Irish or Scottish or British or German or … [Read more...]

#CloseTheCamps: No 4th of July While Children Die

July 3, 2019 by Shannon Weber Leave a Comment

On July 2nd, I participated in a #CloseTheCamps rally demanding that the illegal concentration camps for undocumented children and their families -- with 71% of migrants being held in for-profit facilities as of November 2017 -- be shut down. I stood on the sidewalk of a local park with about 60 other protesters as we held signs and rattled noisemakers, chanting and begging our … [Read more...]

We’re Still Here: Decolonize Your Mind About Indigenous People This Thanksgiving

7 Things US History Class Should Have Taught Every American About Indigenous History

Why White North Americans Need to Understand Ourselves as “Settlers”

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