Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

Remembering how the Iroquois treated missionary Isaac Jogues and his companions.

Father Jogues harangued by the Iroquois from Francis Parkman’s ‘The Jesuits in North America in the 17th century’ (1897).

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NOTE: Earlier today we published my “Christopher Columbus and the Birth of the Modern World” which I strongly encourage you to fully imbibe. The lies about Columbus — intended to delegitimize the United States, in whose territory he never set foot — have become so rampant that there is much need for a corrective. I believe I have provided one you’ll find both useful and enlightening.

Meanwhile, the great Paul Kengor comes at that same problem from the other direction in “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!”, which we reprint here for our Members. It is definitely worth your time to consider exactly how peaceful, kind, and dare we say, “noble” the Native Americans truly were. — RDM

Christopher Columbus and the Birth of the Modern World

by Paul Kengor
October 12, 2025

Among the American left’s new holy days, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is near the top of the l…