Editor'sNote

Dear readers,

Welcome to the second issue of Uncovered! From the bottom of our hearts, our team would like to thank everyone who read and supported our first issue It was a genuine honour and joy to hear that it taught readers something new about important uncovered histories, even if it was in little ways.

If you are new to Uncovered, we are a student-run newsletter that aims to educate readers on historical atrocities committed towards marginalised communities that have gone unnoticed or rewritten And more importantly, show how the lingering impacts of these issues are still felt potently today.

We are incredibly excited to present our second volume, which is centred on the historical cultural genocide of Indigenous groups across the world. Being loosely defined and not yet ratified in international law, cultural genocide has always been a contentious and generally neglected topic; it always seems to be overshadowed by more ‘pressing’ issues in international discourse. For this issue, our Uncovered team was largely inspired by many of our own experiences in the classroom, of receiving little to no respectful education on the stories of the Indigenous communities in our respective countries. So for this issue, we wanted to shed light on just how significant and damaging cultural genocide has been throughout history Ground it in hard, indisputable evidence

Thank you so much to the wonderful Uncovered team who made this volume possible! It was lovely to work with writers, designers and illustrators from the first issue - and also bring on board some new members!

To end, I’d like to leave you with a quote from Vine Deloria Jr, an activist for American Indian rights, that I think sums up this volume so perfectly: “a society that cannot remember its past is in peril of losing its soul.”

Sincerely,

Eujiny Cho

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