Allen County, Indiana Genealogy

Celebrated on the second Monday of October.

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.

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.

1. October 08, 2021 A Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 2021 at The White House.gov when U.S. President Joe Biden became the first U.S. President to formally recognize the holiday.
2. October 07, 2022 A Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 2022 at The White House.gov.
3. It is estimated that in the 130 years following first contact, Native America lost 95 percent of its population. from Unlearning Columbus Day Myths: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian.
4. Rethinking How We Celebrate American History—Indigenous Peoples’ Day by Dennis W. Zotigh and Renee Gokey October 12th, 2020 in the National Museum of the American Indian section of Smithsonian Magazine.
5. Goodbye, Columbus? Here's what Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans by Emma Bowman at NPR.org.

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