Today, Amanda and Ellyn are highlighting Indigenous authors and stories in celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day. The history of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day goes back to the 1970's! In 1977, the International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, sponsored by the United Nations, first began discussing this change. It is a challenge to the notion that Christopher Columbus “discovered” a land that had actually been populated for tens of thousands of years. Dog-Eared Books is on the ancestral homelands of the Meskwaki Nation and Baxoje ich’e - also known as the Ioway (from which we take our state name) - peoples.
Amanda and Ellyn have put together a list of some of their favorite Indigenous authors to share with you. We hope you listen and pick up Indigenous Stories year round.
Ellyn's Currently Reading | The Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
Amanda's Currently Reading | The Optimists by Brian Platzer & The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Books coming out this week | We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat & Bog Queen by Anna North
Rethinking How We Celebrate American History - Indigenous Peoples Day
Learn About and Donate to the Meskwaki Nation
Learn More About the Baxoje
Learn About and Donate to the First Nations
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Indigenous Authors you NEED to be Reading:
Recent Reads by Indigenous Authors You Need to Check Out:
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