Indigenous Peoples Day marked with celebrations, protests
“’Everything that we do is to bring about Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty on this land and to dismantle white supremacy and settler colonialism,’ said Amber Starks, who is African American and a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. ‘And I’d like to add racial capitalism’
Kyle Mays, an assistant professor at the University of California-Los Angeles who is Black and Saginaw Anishinaabe, acknowledged the work isn’t easy.
While Indigenous Peoples Day is ‘cool,’ he said, ‘I don’t want a day for celebration. I want justice.'”