Here's why it's called Indigenous Peoples Day, the history behind the holiday (and why it's on the same day as Columbus Day) and how people celebrate.
The events across the U.S. come two years after President Joe Biden officially commemoratedIndigenous Peoples Day. An increasing number of states and cities have also recognized it - pivoting from a day-long rooted in the celebration of explorer Christopher Columbus to one focused on the people ...
Through this particular understanding of the universe, these peoples are led to a sensitive appropriation of the territory, with structuring beliefs that are also reflected in their architecture, raising the very concept of sustainability to another level, since nature is not seen as a resource to ...
Indigenous peoples in Africa currently experience a range of human rights abuses. Recently, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights released General Comment 21 on the right to take part in cultural life (ICESCR article 15(1)(a)). This contribution examines the ...
What was the significance of corn in the Southeastern Indigenous cultures? How did the political organization of Southeastern tribes function? What was the political impact of European colonization on Southeastern peoples? Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast, any of theNative Americanpeoples of ...
“Back in the 1800s during the war between Mexico and the Apache, the Mexican Government was paying money for the scalps of Apache men, women, and children. In the United States, they put them on reservations; here, they killed us. Now for us, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is really importan...
Understanding the range of strategies Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples used to manage salmon stocks also has important implications for present-day Pacific salmon stocks in the region, many of which are imperiled or extinct86,87,88,89,90. Indigenous terminal fisheries using weir technology could hav...
The North Okanagan First Nation celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day with a powwow, a Lions Club breakfast, a five kilometre walk/run challenge, children’s activities and more. Dozens of people gathered at the Splatsin ball park to take in the festivities, which included drumming, dancing...
In many ways, the structural violence of settler colonialism continues to dominate the lived experience of Indigenous populations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in contemporary Australia. One aspect of this structural violence concerns the regulation of Indigenous identity, today pe...
Another aspect of conflating Native peoples with magic is what Howe identified as the “trope of the vanishing Indian." She explained, The vanishing American Indian is in art, it’s in stories…We exist in the minds of mainstream America as dead and forgotten because the white...