After students returned from fall break, UMF presented activities to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, including themed lunch options.
Indigenous Peoples Day
Maine businesses recognize Indigenous Peoples Day in different ways
Five years after the state changed the October holiday from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, some businesses are giving workers the day off while others are trying to foster greater cultural awareness.
Accept our king, our god — or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas
The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.
Seven times people discovered the Americas — and how they got here
Columbus’ was the last of at least seven discoveries of the Americas.
Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America
Many U.S. states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy has a longer — and even more fraught — history in Latin America.
“As long as the stories live, our spirits live”: University of Maine at Farmington holds panel discussion on Wabanaki struggles
As part of Indigenous Peoples Week, University of Maine at Farmington held a panel discussion Oct. 16 on the Wabanaki’s current political struggles, the journey to date to assert sovereignty and efforts by others along the way.
Portland Museum of Art offering free admission Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day
Numerous special events are planned at the museum.
Indigenous-made films about reciprocity inspire conversation on climate
The films provide insights about how communities have thrived based on mutual actions since time immemorial
Photos: Androscoggin Historical Society displays artifacts of indigenous people
Visitors to the Knight House on Monday were shown replicas of items used by local indigenous people.
Report finds Maine schools failing to teach Wabanaki studies despite state law
The report was published Monday to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and is a collaboration between the Wabanaki Alliance, the Abbe Museum, the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine.