Monday, October 10, 2022

quick notes on Indigenous People's Day

There's lots more color since two weeks ago...

All the MSU campus walkways were chalked with support for Indigenous People's Day. 💗

Here's the first chapter of Howard Zinn's A People's History--"Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress" so we never forget. 

Here's The White House proclamation--we have a long way to go.

I like The Onion's take. (Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately.)

Pic: The Red Cedar.

4 comments:

StephLove said...

I went to that site that tells you what people originally inhabited the place where you live yesterday and it was the Piscataway.

maya said...

That's so cool, StephLove. Was it this one? https://native-land.ca/

StephLove said...

Yes, that's the one.

maya said...

👍

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