by Rachel Carey-Harper | Feb 12, 2021 | Foundational Genocide
We need to understand how this international law of colonialism was developed, how it was justified, how it was used to subjugate Indigenous Peoples, how it was used to steal Indigenous lands, assets, and rights, and how it has impacted Indigenous Peoples from the onset of colonization to the present day.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Feb 3, 2021 | Solidarity
Sisters of the Light was a women’s multi-cultural spiritual group int he 1990’s. Among other things, they would present stories of six primarily Wampanoag, and Quaker women from Cape Cod history one of them being abolitionist Quaker, Lucretia Mott.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 15, 2021 | MM Indigenous Women
Group of Men … Bring Awareness to MMIW by Justus Caudell | January 11, 2021 The full article is here… Excerpt from the article… Running and biking daily with the name of a missing or murdered indigenous woman or child painted in red on their arms – and...
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 11, 2021 | Boarding schools
Hundreds Died at Northern Ontario Residential Schools by David Helwig |Dec 16, 2015 The full article is here… Excerpt from the article… Of 426 Ontario Indian residential school students known to have died from 1867 to 2000, 38 percent have been forgotten by history....
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 11, 2021 | Thanksgiving
In a December 1862 letter to the Senate, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the execution of 39 Sioux citizens. …
Ten months later, Lincoln signed another letter. This one was a proclamation: As of October 3, 1863, the president, hoping to bring a symbolic sense of calm and joy to a nation torn in two by the still-raging Civil War, declared the fourth Thursday in November to be “a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise.”
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