National Domestic Workers Alliance

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John — Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. It’s a moment to reflect on and celebrate the rich culture and the lives of Native American people.

It’s also a time to acknowledge and grieve the genocide of millions of Native peoples, the theft of land, and the relentless and continued attacks on Indigenous cultures.

Sadly, the sanitized history taught in far too many schools neglects to mention the massacres of, and brutality against, Indigenous Americans that set the stage for hundreds of years of systematic oppression. It erases a tragic and deeply defining part of our country’s history. This includes erasing the history that many Indigenouse people were forced to be domestic workers, something many others in our multi-racial domestic worker movement know all too well.

As you go about your day today, we invite you to take a moment to honor Indigenous people by learning more about Indigenous women’s power. [[link removed]]

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Did you know that: before European conquest, Indigenous women had spiritual, political and economic power that most European women did not have [[link removed]] ?

Across most of the Americas, corn sustained powerful tribal nations, including the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek (Muscogee) nations in the Southeast. Women within these matrilineal societies owned their own households and the goods produced from them. Part of this power emerged from their central roles in kin and clan relations as well as their centrality to the production of corn. Similarly, Navajo women held great economic and political power since they owned large herds of sheep and other livestock.

You can learn more on NDWA’s Interactive History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing [[link removed]] . Take a look and then share it with everyone you know. Helping to tell their real history is a perfect way to celebrate Indigenous women, caregivers, and leaders.

Thanks for all that you do,

Care Team
National Domestic Workers Alliance

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Thank you for being a dedicated supporter of the National Domestic Workers Alliance!

We're working day and night to win respect, recognition, and labor rights and protections for the more than 2.5 million nannies, house cleaners, and homecare workers.

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The majority of domestic workers sit at the center of some of our nation’s most decisive issues because of who they are and what they do: they are women – mostly women of color, immigrants, mothers, and low-wage workers. They are impacted by almost every policy affecting the future of our economy, democracy and country.

Domestic workers can lead us toward a new, inclusive vision for the future for all of us -- and your grassroots support is the fuel that can get us there.

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