ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: San Diego tribes celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day with commemoration and performance.
This second Monday of October honors the history and culture of Indigenous Peoples in our country. It’s been an official national holiday since last year, replacing Columbus Day in most of the U.S. San Diego County is home to 17 tribal communities, the most of any county in the country. KPBS Education Reporter M.G. Perez takes us to a local high school celebrating a difficult history today.
S.T.A.R. stands for Strong, Traditional, And Resilient. Those are all characteristics of ancestors whose group members said were demoralized and degraded by European invaders, including Christopher Columbus, during the colonization of North America. James Arnold, 16, is a junior at Ramona High School. He has a heritage with the Navajo, Pueblo, and Lakota tribes. He has proudly been a grass dancer since he was 10.
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