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Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Voicing issues effective Native Americans
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Monday marks a celebratory day for Native Americans. Indigenous Peoples’ Day is being celebrated across California. For the last seven years, Francisco Dominguez, a Davis radio host, has been using his platform to voice issues impacting Native Americans.”That history must be told because the native people are the true people. The original people of this land,” Dominguez said. For centuries, the U.S. celebrated Christopher Columbus as the explorer who discovered the Americas, but for the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the Americas long before Columbus ever arrived.The holiday means something more dark.As a result of advocacy by Native American activists, many states, including California, now observe the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”It’s about making things better. Turning things around to have productive lives. There’s a lot of problems. There’s no doubt about that,” Dominguez said. Dominguez’s show airs on KDVS 90.3 FM every other Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. His show covers Native American issues, as well as Chicano issues, immigration and politics. “Whether it be water rights — there’s a lot of issues over oil, oil pipelines, and missing and murdered Indigenous women. So we bring up a lot of awareness to these issues,” Dominguez said. Dominguez has been covering Native American issues for decades. Some of his photographs are featured at Sacramento State University and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Click here to learn more. Dominguez says Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a time to celebrate, but most importantly, consider the history of the U.S. and how it has treated Native people.”People have had to struggle a lot, you know, just to maintain their culture. It’s important to have people remember what happened here. And people are still alive, and they’re still moving forward,” Dominguez said.
Monday marks a celebratory day for Native Americans. Indigenous Peoples’ Day is being celebrated across California.
For the last seven years, Francisco Dominguez, a Davis radio host, has been using his platform to voice issues impacting Native Americans.
“That history must be told because the native people are the true people. The original people of this land,” Dominguez said.
For centuries, the U.S. celebrated Christopher Columbus as the explorer who discovered the Americas, but for the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the Americas long before Columbus ever arrived.
The holiday means something more dark.
As a result of advocacy by Native American activists, many states, including California, now observe the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
“It’s about making things better. Turning things around to have productive lives. There’s a lot of problems. There’s no doubt about that,” Dominguez said.
Dominguez’s show airs on KDVS 90.3 FM every other Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m.
His show covers Native American issues, as well as Chicano issues, immigration and politics.
“Whether it be water rights — there’s a lot of issues over oil, oil pipelines, and missing and murdered Indigenous women. So we bring up a lot of awareness to these issues,” Dominguez said.
Dominguez has been covering Native American issues for decades. Some of his photographs are featured at Sacramento State University and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Click here to learn more.
Dominguez says Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a time to celebrate, but most importantly, consider the history of the U.S. and how it has treated Native people.
“People have had to struggle a lot, you know, just to maintain their culture. It’s important to have people remember what happened here. And people are still alive, and they’re still moving forward,” Dominguez said.
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