![]() ![]() This continent was not home to scattered bands of roaming nomads in the wilderness, but to numerous different sophisticated and populous cultures. At the time of Columbus’s arrival, there were 100 million Indigenous people in the Americas the entire population of Europe was only 88 million. ![]() In Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas, Jennifer Raff shares that Native American DNA has been separated from that of other humans for around 35,000 years. ![]() We speak to one another in these media with and without words and in these fertile environments, healing can grow. America and many of her citizens are having an identity crisis.Īrt and music have a special power to transcend our differences. So losing narratives means losing ourselves, in a way. We are all products of that history whether we see it or not. We all lose when we lose sight of our history. We can’t get to reconciled if we skip all the reconciling we can’t get to healed if we skip all the healing. The absent and distorted narratives have many Americans singing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” while many others grapple with historical and contemporary traumas that have yet to be properly addressed. ![]() Citizens today often struggle to face uncomfortable facts of history, such as the genocide of Native Americans, their internment in residential boarding schools, and slavery. American Craft Council American Craft Council Main navigationĪmerica has historical amnesia. ![]()
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