Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day?

by | Oct 12, 2026

by George Brosi October 12, 2026 Why Columbus Day is celebrated in the United States is a good question. An Italian, financed by the Spanish monarchy, Columbus never set foot in what became the USA.  As the first to plunder and exploit the land and people of the...

A Republic Built on Native Land

by | Jul 6, 2026

Another entry in ICT’s “America 250” series offers a historical timeline of the seizure of land by the European colonizers who created the United States of America while systematically ostracizing, excluding, forcibly exiling, and/or annihilating its...

The Battle of Greasy Grass

by | Jul 2, 2026

Young people in America are taught that US forces suffered a terrible defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June 25-26, 1876. But to the descendants of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people it was a brief moment of successful resistance to the encroachment of...

Unerasing the origins of the US Constitution

by | Jun 29, 2026

America’s revisionist historians often ignore or discount the influence of the Haudenosaunee people’s representative democracy on the principles and practices written into the US Constitution, ascribing them instead to the ancient Greek democracy, or to...

A step-by-step guide to Indigenous erasure

by | Jun 25, 2026

From Indian Country Today’s “America 250” series comes this overview of the history of Turtle Island indigenous erasure. Rarely in the history of humanity has there been a genocide as sweeping in scope, as thorough, and as prolonged as this one, nor...