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The\u00a0Green Party of Michigan (GPMI)<\/a>\u00a0supports the students, faculty, and administration of Northern Michigan University in their call for\u00a0NMU<\/a>\u00a0to recognize Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day and condemns the\u00a0NMU Board of Trustees\u2019<\/a>\u00a0decision to reject the recognition of Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n

Columbus Day represents many things to different people. However, history cannot be denied. As his own journals attest, Columbus willingly engaged in the murder and enslavement of the Indigenous peoples he met on his travels. As a symbol, Columbus Day represents the nearly complete dispossession of Native Americans from their homelands,and the genocide and ecocide that have been and continue to be a part of that colonization.<\/p>\n

More at https:\/\/migreenparty.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/09\/gpmi-joins-nmu-students-and-faculty-in-celebrating-indigenous-peoples-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Green Party of Michigan (GPMI)\u00a0supports the students, faculty, and administration of Northern Michigan University in their call for\u00a0NMU\u00a0to recognize Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day and condemns the\u00a0NMU Board of Trustees\u2019\u00a0decision to reject the recognition of Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day. Columbus Day represents many things to different people. However, history cannot be denied. As his ownContinue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EhUy-4c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitgreens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}