Native Americans
Nashville celebrated its first Indigenous People’s Day this year
October 17, 2017The city joins a host of other municipalities across the nation that have passed similar recognitions recently.
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It’s time to retire Columbus Day for good
October 6, 2017Let us forget the monster who started it all, and throw Columbus in the dust heap of history where he belongs.
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Nashville axes Columbus Day, will observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead
October 6, 2017Nashville is the first large city and state capital in the South to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day.
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“Trail of Tears Walk” commemorates Native Americans’ forced removal
September 21, 2017It is estimated over 60,000 Native people were driven from their homes and the lands they had occupied for thousands of years. It was ethnic cleansing at its worst.
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The legacy of Charlottesville: Trump must go
August 28, 2017As a Native in the KKK's birth state, I am enraged when crackpot ideologues proclaim the South is “White Man’s land.” I must remind them that the South is Indian land, as is every inch of...
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