Today I honor those who first resided on the land that surrounds me today. It is Indigenous Peoples Day. For about ten years I spent several weeks a year researching at the National Archives locations in Washington, DC, College Park, MD, and Kansas City, MO. The work was for some Native American tribes and I was reading file after file in records of the Office of Indian Affairs (later known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs). I learned how my fellow human beings were treated, written about, talked about, and hidden away. I saw awful correspondence about children and boarding schools. I think you get the picture.
Minnesota Public Radio has a listing of places and ceremonies to honor Native Americans today and every day.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/10/indigenous-peoples-day-events-happening-in-minnesota
My post in 2024 still strikes the same message. https://genealogybypaula.com/2024/10/bloh indigenous-peoples-day-2024-in-the-u-s-at-least-in-some-places/
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