I’ve lived in CA too long. We were celebrating Indigenous People’s Day when my daughter was in Rockridge Elementary in the Oakland school system. Why would we celebrate a day dedicated to a guy who “discovered” a continent when people were already here?
I live in a township–Towamensing–that has a name taken from the Lenape
Nation. Unfortunately, I don’t know any members of that tribe. They were driven out of the area into western PA, then Ohio, then further west. That is, those who weren’t killed by European diseases or shot to death.
Today there are three federally-recognized Lenape tribes, none in Pennsylvania.
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