Definition -- Indigenous Persons Day -- PARADE dot-com Oct. 2021

 

What is Indigenous Peoples’ Day?

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a day to recognize indigenous people 

and the contributions they’ve made to history, as well as to mourn 

those lost to genocide and Western colonization—and to remember that Native Americans were actually here long before European settlers showed up 

on our shores. In 1977, the United Nations International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas proposed 

that Indigenous Peoples Day replace Columbus Day.