In an empowering shift for indigenous students at Cornell, Monday was officially recognized as Indigenous Peoples’ Day for the first time by the University and the City of Ithaca. Cornell approved academic calendar changes over the summer that renamed the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples’ Day, coinciding with Fall Break. For many universities, including Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia and UCLA, this year has been the first to recognize Indigenous People’s Day. In addition, Shenandoah said he hopes this change will help people better understand history through the perspective of Indigenous people. There’s the idea that we build off of what happened before, and when we’re looking at Indigenous Peoples’ Day, that’s how I see it.

Source: Daily Sun October 11, 2017 01:18 UTC