Today, October 12, many people celebrate Columbus Day. Remember the old elementary school saying that we were taught as children "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue?" He was said to be the first to discover North America in 1492, but instead Columbus essentially initiated the European colonization of the "new world," which was already inhabited by Indigenous People, but is not what was taught in grade school. So today instead of celebrating the discovery of my country, I reflect back on the genocide of the Indigenous People, and honor them for their courage and continual efforts to end oppression.
Amy Goodman, on Democracy Now, interviewed singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, an activist in the American Indian Movement. Check out what she has to say and sing about Native American genocide, oppression, colonization, and assimilation.
Also an interesting video clip from the documentary film, the Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man is below.
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