Why we call it Indigenous Peoples Day, a thread.
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Many of these nations exist today. In the US alone, there are Seneca people, Diné people, Lakota people, and more. All different peoples.
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We're talking/writing about different indigenous PEOPLES. Peoples, plural; not people, singular. And not people's, which doesn't make sense.
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525 years after Columbus's arrival, it's important to us as indigenous people to still be recognized. That's kinda what today was about.
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When you write Indigenous People's Day (with the apostrophe) instead of Indigenous Peoples Day, you're signaling that you don't see us.
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I feel happy about Indigenous Peoples Day. But also impotent as an unemployed journo, while non-indigenous journos getting the basics wrong.
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Anyway. That's your free thread from me today. Please don't steal it from me like you did our land. Thanks :)
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In light of this: Do u think u could read the colonial invasion as a kind of proto-globalisation of these cultures???
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