Day 5: Indigenous People's Day
Choose one thing to read, watch, listen to, do, or engage with today. Try to mix it up each day between the categories!
READ
How Indigenous Peoples’ Day came about and why it matters today The movement to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day has been decades in the making. To understand the history of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, it’s important to understand how Columbus Day came about. by Harmeet Kaur CNN (2023)
All the places celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day | Mashable Explores the history of and controversy surrounding the growing national movement towards Indigenous Peoples Day. by Chase DiBenedetto and Nicole Gallucci Mashable (2023)
WATCH
Christopher Columbus Was a Murderous Moron Adam Ruins Everything explains where this holiday comes from and why changing it to Indigenous Peoples Day is so important. (2017) 6 minutes T CC
Columbus Was a Genocidal Rapist Franchesca Ramsey explains who Christopher Columbus was, why it makes no sense to celebrate him, and how Indigenous People’s Day is taking hold across the US. (2015) 3 minutes T CC
Reconsider Columbus Day A PSA-style video featuring multiple voices urging us all to abolish the Columbus Day holiday and use the day to learn Indigenous history. Nuheightzcinema (2009) 2 minutes T CC
LISTEN
Listen to this song: Columbus Day RocknMuzic (2015) 3 minutes T
Listen to this song: Indigenous Peoples Day Song Remix FYUTCH(2021) 4 minutes T
BRING IT HOME
Try this “escape the room,” Quest for the Caribbean Cure. Sign up FREE on the website and download the pdf. Part 1 has Taino/Arawak contributions and Part 2 uses primary sources to understand what happened when Columbus arrived in the Caribbean.
Claudia A. Fox Tree at IPD Newburyport, MA, 2023
DO
Find out what is happening for IPD in your area and attend an event. Look at the websites of local tribal nations and universities to get ideas.
EXPLORE & REFLECT
Reflect on the Louis Turgis lithograph titled Christophe Colomb parmi les Indiens (Christopher Columbus Among the Indians) and created between 1850 and 1900.
21-Day Questions
How are Indigenous Peoples portrayed in this artwork - a primary source for the time period it was painted, not during the time of the arrival of Columbus?
What is happening in the U.S. at this time?
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