How much do we really know about our colonial pasts?

Show notes

November is Native American Heritage Month in the U.S. It’s also the month where millions of Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, which has a far more complicated and bloodier history than we’re often taught. The same can be said about Germany and its colonial history. Educators and activists are pushing for more acknowledgment of the country’s colonial past – in the classroom, in museums and on the streets of Berlin.

On the sixth episode of Tearing Down Walls, host Sylvia Cunningham looks at colonialism on both sides of the Atlantic with Naita Hishoono, executive director of the Namibia Institute for Democracy; Renée Gokey, citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and teacher services coordinator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian; Jana Gottschalk, managing director of the education nonprofit Pen Paper Peace; Angelina Caroli, a sophomore studying criminal justice at the University of New Haven and member of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut; and Mnyaka Sururu Mboro, the co-founder of Berlin Postkolonial.

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