A Reminder: NO Nation "Owns" The Land It Sits On

"The population of Europe has been replaced by migrants three times in the past 45,000 years. New research shows that the current risk of developing various diseases varies according to how much of a person’s DNA originates from the various prehistoric migrants."

Click on the link below for an interesting and informative look at the history of migration in one area of the planet and how it relates to some diseases:

Prehistoric population turnover influences the risk of various diseases for modern Europeans

Recovering From Colonialism

"Today, we tell a story of colonialism, dispossession, and cultural renaissance as a lens through which to understand alienation, a primary condition of modernity."

Click on the link below for the podcast which delves into how colonized cultures can come back to live at least to some degree within their indigenous communities:

Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize

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"The murder rate for native women and girls living on reservations in the U.S. is ten times higher than the national average for women, according to the Urban Indian Health Institute. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice’s federal missing person database only logs a fraction of those cases. Our guest this week, who has investigated cases for indigenous girls from nine months old to women in their eighties, points out that this is part of a broader trend of data erasure. Abigail Echo-Hawk is the director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, which focuses on research and decolonizing data for urban American Indian and Alaska Native communities. She also serves as executive vice president of the Seattle Indian Health Board and is an enrolled citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. She joins WITHpod to discuss recovering the true story of her people prior to and post the Columbus encounter, the importance of rethinking misconceptions, health disparities in indigenous and Alaska native communities, and the work that lies ahead to break down feelings of 'invisibility.'”

Click on the link below for a better understanding of the need for an Indigenous Peoples Day:

Recovering Native Narratives and Data