Today, in the United States, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It is a day that for far too long had been celebrated as Columbus Day, commemorating Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Bahamas in 1492, which for his fellow Europeans marked the discovery of the “New World”. Since the 1940s, Indigenous
“Our legend stories take us to the stars – we are people from the stars, we were planted here, on top of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, as peaceful people, to live with all the other nations of the Earth, the plant nations, the animal nations, the ones that
While Earth Day encourages people to take action towards environmental protection, what is still largely missing from the discussions are the perspectives of Indigenous peoples. These communities have coexisted with nature for millennia and continue to do so despite growing pressures governments, corporations and climate change. Indigenous territories continue to
