Age of Exploration — Bunk History

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Sketch of colonial fur traders and Indigenous people in a canoe.

The Untold Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company

A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe.

by Melissa J. Gismondi via Canadian Geographic on April 30, 2020

The History Behind the Movement to Replace Columbus Day

Though the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day was celebrated in the early 1990s, the idea took shape many years earlier.

by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on October 6, 2017

Indians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History

Two historians shed light on the atrocities of Native American enslavement and genocide.

by Peter Nabokov via New York Review of Books on November 24, 2016

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