AFGE Local 2206 Celebrates National Native American Heritage Month

November is National Native American Heritage Month, an annual celebration of the culture, heritage, and history of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

National Native American Heritage Month is an opportunity for celebration, but it’s also an important opportunity to reflect on the dispossession and displacement faced by Indigenous peoples now and in the past, and all the resilience and activism done to ensure the continuance of Indigenous culture and community today.

Efforts to institutionalize a time to honor Indigenous peoples go back over a century. In 1916, the first American Indian Day was declared by the State of New York. Over the course of the 20th Century, a number of states declared similar holidays. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush first issued a proclamation designating November as National Native American Heritage Month.

To celebrate National Native American Heritage Month, AFGE Local 2206 is saluting AFGE members of Indian descent and for their contributions to the labor movement and the American public as a whole.

~The Insider