Earlier this week was Indigenous Peoples’ Day, formerly known as Columbus Day. But even though that “holiday” is over, guess what? Every single day, I’m still living and working on lands stolen from the Tongva people. So it seemed only appropriate to continue listening to the audiobook of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. We bother teaching history to children because we say that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it… but the Native American history that I learned in 5th grade was pretty much an exact repeat of the same white-supremacist narrative used by the colonizers of the 1400s onwards to justify genocide. It’s way past time for me to go back and learn our history, for reals.