![]() ![]() The celebration and observance will convene on Monday, October 10th with a Noon-Day Pow Wow at Keyser Quad from 12:00pm-2:00pm, in which, the program will have key featured intertribal dances throughout the 2-hour period. Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day is a new tradition at Hopkins that extends the efforts of promoting/celebrating a vital population in our community. With the introduction of the Indigenous Students at Hopkins, the Office of Multicultural Affairs began the process of providing thought provoking programming and events to enhance the recognition of Indigenous communities and our own student population. The charge to change the national holiday began in the 1990’s with Berkeley, California and South Dakota. Indigenous Peoples Day reimagines and provides a counter-narrative to Columbus Day and changes a celebration of colonialism into an opportunity to reveal historical truths about the oppression of indigenous peoples in the Americas, to organize against current injustices, and to celebrate indigenous resistance.
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