Indigenous People’s Day was first proposed by Indigenous people at a 1977 United Nations conference to counteract anti-Indigenous discrimination, as well as the inaccurate narrative that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas, which had been inhabited for millennia by over 600 Indigenous nations. 

Learn more on the significance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day at: https://universitylife.upenn.edu/the-significance-of-indigenous-peoples-day/

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