Los Angeles celebrates inaugural Indigenous Peoples Day
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Source: Los Angeles Times
By ALEJANDRA REYES-VELARDE
OCT 08, 2018 2:15 PM
Christopher Columbus was the guest of dishonor at this party.
Away from the revelers, a statue of the famous explorer was kept hidden behind a black box in downtown Los Angeles' Grand Park, decorated with an altar celebrating native people.
Monday marked the first celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day in Los Angeles, a year after the county Board of Supervisors voted to reimagine Columbus Day.
The covered statue included a note signed by several county organizations indicating the monument will be removed.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-indigenous-peoples-day-20181008-story.html
(Thanks to sandensea who reminded us earlier today that this IS Indigenous Peoples Day.)
Chief Sitting Bear - Arikira
"Does Everything" - Apsaroke
Black Eagle - Nez Perce
Hollow Horn Bear
Piegan man with medicine pipe
Kiowa girl
Nabkatsheb, a Tewa Indian Girl, taken in 1905 by Edward S. Curtis.
Three Apache Brothers. 1880s. Photo by A. Miller. Source - National Anthropological Archives.
Edward S. Curtis
Fo-e - "Snow Child" - Santa Clara - 1905 (The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis)
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This is their land. We are the invaders.
We were brought up to think that we knew better and that they were inferior. We were wrong. We were taught wrong.
Much respect to Indigenous Peoples.
