Today is Indigenous People’s Day.
It wasn’t until my boyfriend in San Francisco back in 2011 called Columbus Day Indigenous People’s Day that I began to call it the same. He was the first person I had ever heard say Indigenous People’s Day and to honor Native people on this day.
And I am part Native American.
Today it actually makes me sad that people say Columbus Day and honor someone who didn’t discover America but was the beginning of land being taken away from Native people.
In grade school, I remember learning about Manifest Destiny.
It was man’s destiny to take as much land as he could the text books said.
We didn’t learn that peace between the early settlers and Native Americans was not true.
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