Indigenous Peoples' Day, October 11, 2021
- Indigenous Peoples' Day Celebration.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October, on October 11 this year, to honor the cultures and histories of the Native American people. The day is centered around reflecting on their tribal roots and the tragic stories that hurt but strengthened their communities.
- HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY -
The first seed of Indigenous Peoples’ Day was planted at a U.N. international conference on discrimination in 1977. The first state to recognize the day was South Dakota in 1989. Berkeley, California, and Santa Cruz followed suit. Although the day was still considered Columbus Day up to 1937, many people began calling it Indigenous Peoples’ Day to celebrate the rich culture and the lives of the Native American people.
For the Native Americans, Columbus Day was always hurtful as it glorified the violent past constituting 500 years of colonial torture and oppression by European explorers like Columbus and those who settled in America. Indigenous Peoples’ Day draws attention to the pain, trauma, and broken promises that were erased by the celebration of Columbus Day. Before his arrival, the indigenous folk were successful self-sufficient communities that sustained life for thousands of years.
Year by year, the movement to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day spreads to more and more states, towns, and cities across the United States of America. Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrates, recognizes, and honors the beautiful traditions and cultures of the Indigenous People, not just in America, but around the world. Their way of life and culture carries wisdom and valuable insights into how we can live life more sustainably.
- Today, 14 U.S. states celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day and not Columbus Day, as well as the District of Columbia. More than 130 cities including Arlington, Amherst, Cambridge, Brookline, Marblehead, Great Barrington, Northampton, Provincetown, Somerville, and Salem also celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY TIMELINE -
May 1763, Pontiac’s Rebellion. A group of Native American tribes from Illinois, Great Lakes, and Ohio successfully persuade the British to change policies in favor of the Native Americans.
April 5, 1838, Trail of Tears. The Cherokee tribe is ordered to leave their tribal lands by President Andrew Jackson, taking the path now called the Trail of Tears... More, https://nationaltoday.com/indigenous-peoples-day/
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- Wiki, Indigenous Peoples' Day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples%27_Day
Indigenous Peoples' Day[1] is a holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. On October 8, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a presidential proclamation declaring October 11 to be a national holiday.[2]
It is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October, and is an official city and state holiday in various localities. It began as a counter-celebration held on the same day as the U.S. federal holiday of Columbus Day, which honors Italian explorer Christopher Columbus...
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- Daily Kos, Oct. 11, 2021.
Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and this year it was officially recognized for the first time by a U.S. president.
“Since time immemorial, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians have built vibrant and diverse cultures—safeguarding land, language, spirit, knowledge, and tradition across the generations,” President Joe Biden said in a proclamation issued on Friday. “On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, our Nation celebrates the invaluable contributions and resilience of Indigenous peoples, recognizes their inherent sovereignty, and commits to honoring the Federal Government’s trust and treaty obligations to Tribal Nations.”
Biden went on to acknowledge: “For generations, Federal policies systematically sought to assimilate and displace Native people and eradicate Native cultures,” and “recommit to supporting a new, brighter future of promise and equity for Tribal Nations—a future grounded in Tribal sovereignty and respect for the human rights of Indigenous people in the Americas and around the world.”
“I still don't think I've fully absorbed what that has meant,” Dylan Baca, a member of the White Mountain Apache tribe and Navajo, told NPR. “This is a profound thing the president has done, and it's going to mean a lot to so many people.” At 19, Baca has been already spent years as an activist pushing for recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Monday is, of course, also Columbus Day, a federal holiday recognizing a genocidal slaver. An increasing number of states and cities are recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day, however, including Arizona, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C.
What does it mean to change the name of a holiday? “What these changes accomplish, piece by piece, is visibility for Native people in the United States,” according to Mandy Van Heuvelen, the cultural interpreter coordinator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. “Until Native people are or are fully seen in our society and in everyday life, we can't accomplish those bigger changes. As long as Native people remain invisible, it's much more easier for people to look past those real issues and those real concerns within those communities.”...
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/11/2057360/--This-is-a-profound-thing-Indigenous-Peoples-Day-gets-presidential-recognition-for-the-first-time
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My family has Iroquois, Seneca and Mingo heritage, maybe other tribes based on family lore and very old photographs. I need to look into it more.
When I asked my uncle about this some years ago he said two brothers and their Native American wives left on a raft/boat down the Ohio River headed for Texas, mid to late 19th c.
