Ways to Relearn Thanksgiving and to Honor Native Peoples

Various other sources consist of Tribal Nations Maps, a resource of hard copy maps that identify the standard lands of Tribes in North and South America and the Caribbean, and the Smithsonian’s digital archive of treaties made between the USA and Indigenous Tribes.

There are still even more than 1,000 secondary school, university and expert groups that continue to have Native American mascots. Though adjustments have actually been made at the senior high school and university levels, at the specialist level there has been virtually no adjustment. Start the change in your area. Check out our Abolishing Racist Indigenous Mascots: A Toolkit for Adjustment. Get entailed: #NotYourMascot, #ChangeTheName, and #NoHonorInRacism.

With Native American Heritage Month well underway and Thanksgiving/National Day of Grieving happening tomorrow, it is an outstanding time to commemorate Aboriginal Peoples’ radiance, honor and acknowledge truth in background, acknowledge whose land we are on, and work in the direction of real allyship. We call upon our Social Survival community to find out from Native Peoples and their real account of this government vacation, confront settler mythologies of this nation’s background, comprehend exactly how American colonialism and expansionism continue to impact Indigenous areas today, and to take steps in the direction of real settlement. Check out the several methods to honor and celebrate Indigenous Peoples every day.

The Relevance of Deskaheh in the International Indigenous Activity
On July 14, 1923, the Genetic Chief of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Deskaheh Levi General (Cayuga), took a trip to Geneva, Switzerland, to talk before the League of Nations. He sought to get worldwide recognition of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (historically called the 6 Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations) as a sovereign Indigenous Nation governed by a genetic council of principals.

With Indigenous American Heritage Month well underway and Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning taking place tomorrow, it is an excellent time to celebrate Native Peoples’ sparkle, honor and recognize truth in history, recognize whose land we are on, and job towards true allyship. We hire our Cultural Survival community to learn from Aboriginal Peoples and their real account of this government vacation, face inhabitant mythologies of this country’s background, comprehend how American manifest destiny and expansionism continue to impact Indigenous neighborhoods today, and to take actions in the direction of real settlement. Check out the many ways to recognize and commemorate Indigenous Peoples everyday.

Landback – A Conversation with Demetrius Johnson
Demetrius Johnson (Diné) is a #LandBack Organizer at Rapid City, South Dakota-based nonprofit NDN Collective. Initially from Tółaní, Ganado, Arizona, Johnson started community arranging soon after being chosen Head of state of Kiva Club around the disastrous Gold King Mine spill that impacted his people in 2015. Social Survival’s Indigenous Rights Radio Coordinator, Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan), talked with Johnson about his work on NDN Collective’s #LandBack Campaign.