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 “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” instead of “Columbus Day”

I would like to start with a land acknowledgment, a practice I was introduced to during a 21-day racial equity challenge I participated in over the summer. I extend my gratitude for the people of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek and Chickasaw nations for their preservation of the land that I live on today, and more generally, to all the members of the First Nations spread across the American continents for their wisdom, respect, and the deep cultural relationship they share with nature.

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More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims perished in 10 days of slaughter after Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces during the closing months of the country's 1992-95 fratricidal war, in Europe's worst post-World War II massacre.

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As many people in America are celebrating the so-called thanksgiving holiday- with the good intentions of family reunion and thanking God- a review of parts of the Leader of the Revolution's speech on May 15, 2007 can help shed light on the history of European colonizers.

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Tasmanians, A Nation of People That Went Extinct

 Tasmania (known as Van Diemen’s Land until 1855) was occupied for at least 30,000 years by a hunter-gatherer people, the Tasmanian Aborigines, whose population in 1803 was estimated at 7,000 (Lourandos 1997:244; Calder 1875:17).

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