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 Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who supposedly “discovered” America, but
America was there long before Columbus came. And so were millions of people up and down the continent.
Experts estimate that there were anywhere from 60–90 million people in the Americas at the time, possibly even more people in the Americas than in Europe at the time.
Disease and successive wars by waves of invading Europeans decimated the local Indigenous populations, with roughly 90% of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere wiped out over the next century.
However, they have constantly resisted to this day.
Author's summary: Indigenous resistance stories.