Indigenous Peoples Day is a holiday in the United States that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. On October 8, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden became the first U.S. President to formally recognize the holiday, by signing a presidential proclamation declaring October 11, 2021, to be a national holiday. 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 Genovese-born explorer Christopher Columbus. Some people reject celebrating him, saying that he represents "the violent history of the colonization in the Western Hemisphere". Indigenous People’s Day was instituted in Berkeley, California, in 1992, to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Two years later, Santa Cruz, California, instituted the holiday. Starting in 2014, many other cities and states adopted the holiday. Copied from Indigenous Peoples' Day on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
DG House - Artist In Residence discusses Indigenous Peoples' Day posted Oct 12, 2020 by EiteljorgMuseum on YouTube
Meet Artist in Residence DG House (Cherokee of NE Alabama)! In this video, we discuss Indigenous Peoples' Day with DG. “Monday, October 10, 2022, will be the 530th anniversary of Christopher Columbus arriving, lost, on the shores of the Bahamas. Columbus never set foot on the soil of North America. Columbus Day was not an official holiday until 1937 when a group of Knights of Columbus pressured President Franklin Roosevelt to create the holiday. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, places such as South Dakota, Berkeley, CA and Minneapolis, MN, have been observing Indigenous Peoples’ Day to honor the Native or Indigenous Peoples of North, Central and South America whose arts, cultures and histories are ultimately holiday–worthy and overdue for celebration. Copied from Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day With Us! at Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana from an October 10, 2022 post by Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art on Facebook.
See Columbus Day at The Library of Congress.
It's #IndigenousPeoplesDay and we're sharing collections that relate to Native lives. The Great Lakes-Ohio Valley...
The Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Ethnohistory (GLOVE) collection at IUMAA is an assemblage of documents and maps that tell how the Midwest region was used and occupied during the time of colonization. The GLOVE was created in the 1950s during the Indian Claims Commission legal cases and is valuable for its original purpose of providing evidence for legal disputes of land and treaty violations; however, it is also an incredible resource for anyone researching Indigenous and early American history topics.
