Indigenous Peoples Day comes amid a reckoning over colonialism and calls for return of Native land : vimarsana.com

Native American protesters at the Black Hills, now the site of Mount Rushmore. Micah Garen/Getty ImagesIn many parts of what is now the United States, communities have in recent years replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. Celebrating Indigenous cultures every October is important. But in this moment when the U.S. is reckoning with legacies of racism and colonialism, many Indigenous nations call for something more – the return of ancestral lands. Having spoken to Native Americans act

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