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Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day) here in the United States.
I am not Indigenous, but as a white person living on stolen land, I have a strong obligation to learn more about the original caretakers of the places I call home.
Just last week, I learned about an amazing free course from Crash Course on Native American History, created and taught by actually Indigenous people.
Growing up, I was taught a very whitewashed version of Indigenous history that mostly focused on how they helped the Pilgrims here in MA survive those first few years.
The genocide was really glazed over, and there was no exploration of the unique cultures or practices of the many different Nations that existed at that time. This course looks like a fantastic primer, and the kind of thing I wish I’d been taught as kid!
I also wanted to mention a fantastic video from Andrew Sage, who lives in Trinidad & Tabago, on what it means to be Indigenous…
Andrew highlights how Indigenous culture is not a monolith, that there’s not one definition, and that one of the biggest common differentiators between Indigenous and Colonizer is rooted in one’s relationship with the land.
Do you honor and protect it, or exploit and destroy it?
The land I live on was originally protected by the Narragansett Indian Nation and the Mashapee Wampanoag Tribe, both of whom are thankfully still here.
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This content originally appeared on Go Make Things and was authored by Go Make Things
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