Welcome back. We're glad you're here. Happy Indigenous People's Day. Adrian.

Happy Indigenous People's Day. Matika.

You know, it's really important to celebrate Indigenous People's Day over our traditional

American assimilation practices.

I mean, over genocide.

And we actually did a whole episode about this last year.

Right. If you want to hear us kind of be snarky and talk about all the reasons why you

should not support Columbus and should instead support Indigenous People's Day,

you can definitely check that one out. It's short and we'll post it on our social media feed.

I do want to mention and it was something I realized thanks to folks on Instagram that in

that episode, we don't ever name Taino people as like the folks who actually met Columbus's ships

and experienced the devastation following that. So I want to make sure that we center that idea

and that community when we're talking about Indigenous People's Day. So shout out to the Taino

people who are still here and still holding it down even after all of that.

You would think that this would be like my favorite day of the year, but instead Indigenous People's

Day is always a day that I work the most. How about you? Yes, it's like good and bad. I'm always

honored that people want me to like come speak on their campuses and stuff, but I'm also like you

can have me anytime, just not October 12th. Every day can be Indigenous People's Day.

And I know for like a lot of us, this kind of starts the downward slope of bad representations.

Though this year, there's a few things like normally it's, you know, Indigenous People's Day

slash celebrating that genocidal explorer and then it's Halloween and then it's Thanksgiving

and it's football season, etc, etc. But this year, we don't have to worry about the Washington

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