Indigenous Peoples' Day: Fourth Annual Pow Wow

Description

Indigenous Peoples Day reimagines and provides a counternarrative 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. The charge to change the national holiday began in the 1990s with Berkeley, California, and South Dakota. With the introduction of the Indigenous Students at Hopkins group, 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. Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day is a new tradition at Johns Hopkins that extends the efforts of promoting and celebrating a vital population in our community.

The program for this celebration and observance will have key featured intertribal dances throughout the two-hour period.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, Indigenous Students at Hopkins, Center for Indigenous Health, and Peabody Student Affairs' Student Engagement.