{"id":10260,"date":"2015-10-08T08:03:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/portland-to-recognize-indigenous-peoples-day\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:03:32","slug":"portland-to-recognize-indigenous-peoples-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/portland-to-recognize-indigenous-peoples-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 <\/strong>Portland has joined the list of cities marking the second Monday in October as \u201cIndigenous Peoples\u2019 Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A resolution unanimously approved by council Wednesday honors the contributions of Native Americans in the Portland area and says the city has a responsibility to oppose \u201csystemic racism\u201d toward indigenous people and promote their well-being.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no coincidence that it falls on the same date as the federal Columbus Day holiday, established in 1937 to commemorate Christopher Columbus\u2019 arrival in the Americas in 1492. Many Native Americans say the holiday is a painful reminder of oppression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristopher Columbus \u2014 the Columbus dude \u2014 was not English,\u201d British-born City Commissioner Amanda Fritz said before her vote. \u201cI\u2019m so happy he was not English because there are so many things that I apologize for that my ancestors did, including the subsequent invasion of this country and the genocide that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis and Seattle approved similar resolutions last year, and some smaller cities followed. In Seattle, some Italian-Americans criticized the move, saying it disregarded their heritage. Nobody testified against the Portland declaration.<\/p>\n<p>Representative from several tribes testified in favor, describing it as a way to honor those with indigenous ancestry, help heal old wounds and educate Portland residents about Native American culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European arrival in the Americas certainly was pivotal in history, however it was far from its beginning,\u201d said Jeremy FiveCrows of the Nez Perce Tribe. \u201cFor far too long, thousands of years of indigenous culture, history, learning and wisdom has been dismissed or ignored as prehistory that has nothing to do with today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Portland has joined the list of cities marking the second Monday in October as \u201cIndigenous Peoples\u2019 Day.\u201d A resolution unanimously approved by council Wednesday honors the contributions of Native Americans in the Portland area and says the city has a responsibility to oppose \u201csystemic racism\u201d toward indigenous people and promote their well-being. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}