#Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day

[jm-briggs]

[keep-her-wild]

[dayzsaclark]

Happy Indigenous People’s Day to everyone!! 🎊🎉🍾🥳🎈

[clownputo]

Happy indigenous peoples day

[zo1nkss]

Happy Indigenous People's Day!!! I'm proudly Native and also Very Broke if anyone wants to throw a few bucks my way so I can celebrate the resilience and survival of my people today?

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[daintyitgirl]

sonny angel takeover ˚₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

[widebruh]

[tripthelightfandomtastic]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DONT IMAGINE JAKE YELLING AT THE BOYS TO GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN BECAUSE THEYRE IN THE WAY WHILE HE'S TRYING TO COOK AND SAM JUST WALKS OUT WITH THEM ALL SADLY AND JAKE JUST SAYS, "Not you Sam, you stay." AND SAM JUST SMILES LIKE

[thisbrilliantsky]

spending this indigenous peoples' day thinking about how for so long i was hesitant to acknowledge my arawak (taíno) ancestry bc i didn't personally know my great-grandmother and have been taught so little about that heritage in my family, so i was afraid of "appropriating" it; and how i've realized that ignoring that part of my history does not honor those ~500 survivors who are the ancestors of every person of arawak descent alive today. bc they survived columbus' genocide, i'm here. that i don't know much about them is a result of that genocide; remembering them as my family may be all i can do for them right now, so that's what i will do.

[jayswing101]

The doctrine of discovery is one of the core concepts used to justify colonialism, especially of the settler variety. This is what the Canadian Museum of Human Rights says about it:

The Doctrine of Discovery is a legal and religious concept that has been used for centuries to justify Christian colonial conquest. It advanced the idea that European peoples, culture and religion were superior to all others.

The doctrine of discovery comes from a series of declarations from the pope in the 1400s that suggested christianity and christian cultures were superior to all other religions and cultures, and basically said that christian europeans had the right to invade and claim land and resources from non-christian people, and also had the right to subjugate and convert those populations. It's literally at the very core of colonial history and the myth of white supremacy and christian supremacy.

When the pope was visiting Indigenous communities in canada last summer, more than an apology for the catholic church's role in residential schools, what people were asking for was the overturning of the doctrine of discovery. An apology is meaningless as long as that doctrine stands.

Today, the vatican formally rejected the doctrine of discovery. It's a symbolic gesture, sure. But it's still a sign that things are changing. Space was held for Indigenous voices, and the vatican of all places listened to them.

Obviously, there's still work to be done, and colonization didn't just suddenly end because of this announcement, but this is still huge news, and it feels like we're a tiny step closer to Land Back.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[keep-her-wild]

A Blackfoot father and son pause for an intimate moment between each other. (J. H. Sharp, 1901-1909)

[jstor]

Have a great weekend everybody!

[odinsblog]

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

[bluefirewrites]

Wow. Can't believe I forgot Columbus Day existed. I saw it's Indigenous Peoples Day and go 'yeah of course it is'

[vesperstardust]

How Taíno Culture Affects Us Today - with Irka Mateo