The National Day of Mourning began in 1970 and is held annually in Plymouth, Massachusetts. • Indigenous participants mourn ancestors and protest systemic oppression. • Thanksgiving is seen by many ...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the second Monday of October ... genocide and colonization of communities that had lived in the ...

many have pushed for moving away from the holiday to acknowledge the atrocities Columbus committed against people living in ...

About 5,000 people were on Alcatraz Island early this morning for the annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering. As the sun rose over the San Francisco Bay, the event honored resistance ...

or the Ancient One by the Columbia region's Indigenous peoples. Questions and debates erupted. How old was it? Was it a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. As leaders at the Department of the Interior and descendants of federal Indian boarding school ...

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day isn’t just a counterpoint; it’s a reclamation of truth. It’s a step toward acknowledging that the Americas were not empty lands waiting to be discovered ...

More than your typical outdoor tours, Indigenous adventure operators like the Redwood Yurok Canoe Tours share ancient and living cultures that have intertwined with these landscapes since time ...

The author is a Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, and is an expert on indigenous peoples of the Americas and their relationships with new arrivals. In Fifth Sun ...

It was proposed to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day to recognize the people native to the Americas. When was the first Indigenous Peoples' Day? Indigenous Peoples' Day was first ...

Indigenous Peoples' Day, meanwhile, has been celebrated since the 1990s in tandem with Columbus Day and acknowledges Native American cultures and people who inhabited the Americas prior to ...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is observed by 17 states ... Columbus’ sighting in 1492 of what came to be known as the Americas. But in 2021, President Joe Biden issued the first-ever presidential ...