Many others, too, spoke of their lives, and the most pressing issues that face North America's Indigenous peoples today. Americans and Canadians have ignored and harmed Indigenous North America for centuries. Indigenous communities across North America have long lived with harmful stereotypes perpetuated by settler societies: that they are drunks, that they are beggars, that their Indigenous ways are anti-science, that their languages are outdated. Across the continent that they call “Turtle Island,” many from Fairbanks, Alaska, to rural Nova Scotia, to the Navajo Nation talk of their communities’ enduring struggles. But here, with people, if you want to change something, there’s always going to be one that’s not going to agree with you.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 10, 2022 05:02 UTC