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Indigenous People’s Day 2020: Opportunities for Recognition, Education and Action

Resources for celebrating, recognizing and supporting our region’s indigenous communities.

Today—Monday, October 12—we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. The rich cultures, histories and lives of indigenous people deserve celebration every day. On this day in particular, however, instead of honoring Columbus, a man who colonized, killed, and enslaved indigenous people, we want to recognize instead the outstanding contribution the many indigenous tribes have made and continue to make in our region, and the extraordinary injustices and violence perpetrated against them by the U.S. government and settler colonial society.

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