Indigenous People – Fusion Nepal

Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2018 and we have the entire internet to contend with.

Some nights when I put my four-year-old daughter to bed, after we’ve read through her latest favourite library books, she asks me to teach her some Mohawk words.

Mohawk is the language of my mother, and besides the numbers one through 10 and various farm animals, my children don’t hear any of these words spoken in our house, or their grandparents’ house. So on those nights, I open the Speak Mohawk app on my iPhone. Read more…

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This Columbus day, celebrate the person who really discovered America — aka, pretty much everyone except Christopher Columbus.

By now, it’s well known that Indigenous people populated America well before Columbus arrived, and he wasn’t even the first European to land here.

So instead of throwing up a dumb Columbus meme on Facebook, use your free time to see what Indigenous groups lived in your area using the Native Land map.

The map is available online and via the Native Land app (for both iOS and Android). Just type in your address, and you’ll be able to see what indigenous group(s) once lived there or nearby. It’s even possible members of that community still live in that area, though of course many native people were displaced, thanks to, uh, centuries of shitty federal policy. Read more…

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