10/14/2025
✨Today on we pause — not just to honor, but to remember and resist the lies of erasure. The history books they want to rewrite, but we won’t let them.
✨Long before Columbus ever drew his ships toward these shores, hundreds of proud Indigenous nations lived, thrived, and stewarded these lands.
✨In 1492, when European conquest began, it unleashed centuries of dispossession, cultural genocide, broken treaties, forced removals, and silencing of voices. Yet Indigenous communities survived: carrying languages, wisdom, art, ceremony, resilience.
✨Did you know that the movement to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day began in the late 1980s (officially in 1992 in Berkeley)?
✨Or that South Dakota was the first state to transform Columbus Day into Native American Day in 1989?
✨So yes — the man in the big White House may try to scrub out what doesn’t suit his narrative. But here at Elevate, we pledge this: we will always tell the truth.
✨We will uplift Indigenous voices, shine light on histories that were buried, and refuse to stay quiet when injustice is dressed up as “tradition.”
✨Today and every day, we celebrate Indigenous peoples — their strength, their creativity, their unbroken connection to land, and their unshakeable power to persist.
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