by Mitch Randall | Oct 15, 2021 | Feature-, Opinion
Indigenous cultures and systems existed throughout North America prior to 1492. In his book, 1491, Charles C. Mann chronicles the nuances and complexities of Indigenous cultures and systems, which involved complex social and economic structures for governance,...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 14, 2021 | Opinion
I am a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation whose ancestors lived peacefully on the lands of present-day Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee for centuries. While most everyone knows me as Mitch Randall, my other name was given to me by a Comanche Chief: NUMUKUTSU, which...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 13, 2021 | Opinion
The genocide of the Indigenous peoples of North America began 529 years ago this week. On Oct. 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus set foot on what is now called The Bahamas, claiming Spanish ownership of the land and its inhabitants. Funded by Queen Isabella and King...
by Starlette Thomas | Oct 11, 2021 | Opinion
The calendar on my iPhone now has two holidays listed on the same day. Monday, Oct. 11 is both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. I choose not to celebrate the former for his attempted genocide of the latter. I’m bursting awkward silence conversation bubbles...
by Michelle Casavant and Jodi Spargur | Oct 11, 2021 | Opinion
Tiny shoes cover steps to church buildings, orange ribbons fly from school fences and little lights spot otherwise empty fields. These are ever-growing visual reminders of a brutal and genocidal legacy of a church-run, government-funded project of assimilation that...
