Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes that Native people are the first inhabitants of the Americas, including the lands that later became the United States of America.

Typically on the second Monday of October, Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes the Indigenous communities that have lived in the Americas for thousands of years.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day — a holiday that came about as an alternative to Columbus Day — is a chance to reflect on how the US has treated Indigenous people and fight for a better future.

The following contains spoilers of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States : A Graphic Interpretation, on sale now. Earlier this year, I wrote about the excellent ...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a holiday aiming to recognize the resilience and diversity of Indigenous communities in the United States, is on Monday, Oct. 14. It is celebrated across the country ...

Some of the early Indigenous people who reached South America settled in the Altiplano, a plateau near what is now Bogotá. This region underwent several cultural shifts during the Early and ...

A team of scientists analyzed the DNA of human remains approximately 6,000 years old found in Colombia.The results have been published in the journal Science Advances and show that human groups ...

Things have not always been so grim. In 1988, following a blighted period of military rule, Brazil enacted a new constitution guaranteeing rights for indigenous peoples, above all the right to ...

One of the main observers of the art of the Kadiwéu, an Indigenous people from South America, was French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. In the early 20th century, he visited Indigenous ...

But Native Americans and their advocates have increasingly laid claim to the day as Indigenous Peoples Day as a rebuff of the violence and displacement Indigenous people of the Americas faced in ...

Monday was Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's a chance to turn the focus from European arrival to the United States, to celebrate the resilient and unique cultures of indigenous peoples of North America.

Indigenous Peoples' Day came about as an alternative to Columbus Day. To understand the history of Indigenous Peoples' Day, it's important to understand how Columbus Day came about.