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Now we continue our WNYC Centennial Series 100 Years of 100 Things, Thing Number 30 today for this Columbus Day slash Indigenous People's Day

and Thanksgiving Day season. It's 100 years of fighting for indigenous people's stories to be told and recognized in

the United States. Fall is the season with Columbus Day slash Indigenous People's Day and Thanksgiving

when teachers have to figure out how to teach their history in probably very different ways when

they were kids and students, certainly different from 100 years ago.

For example, I'll bet most of you didn't know that it was exactly 100 years ago, 1924, that Congress passed the Indian Citizen Act of 1924 that declared all Native Americans born on U.S. soil to be United States citizens.

Imagine that. It took until 1924 for the settlers and the descendants of the settlers who took

all the Native peoples' lands to say they could all be citizens of the country that was

established over them. And ironically, according to the

Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, it was right about the same time,

late 1920s, that colleges and universities started to name their mascots for Indians, quote unquote,

or native relatedrelated symbols.

Meanwhile, Columbus might have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but it wasn't until 1934 that Congress and President Franklin Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday.

It's not like it was in the Declaration of Independence or something.

As a history on CNN tells it, as waves of Italian immigrants arrived in the U.S. in the late

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