Stories of Resistance: Indigenous Peoples' Day
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we look back at stories about Indigenous resistance and organizing across South America.
This is episode 71 of Stories of Resistance, where you can get fearless, uncompromising truth in your inbox.
Once known as Columbus Day, a day to celebrate the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who supposedly “discovered” America, but America was already inhabited by millions of people.
Experts estimate that there were 60–90 million people in the Americas at the time, possibly even more than in Europe.
Disease and successive wars by invading Europeans decimated the local Indigenous populations, wiping out roughly 90% of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere over the next century.
Despite this, Indigenous peoples have constantly resisted to this day.
America was there long before Columbus came. And so were millions of people up and down the continent.
Author's summary: Indigenous peoples resist despite historical struggles.
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