Indigenous Peoples Day
Mon, 14 October, 2024 at 1:15 pm
Dear Cañada Community,
On Monday, October 14, 2024, we at Cañada College recognize Indigenous Peoples Day. Indigenous Peoples Day provides an opportunity for our campus community to celebrate the lives, cultures, and traditions of Indigenous peoples and sovereignty. This is also a time for us to acknowledge how we have benefited from the use and occupation of the traditional unceded land of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples.
On this day, we encourage you to review our college’s Land and Labor Acknowledgement and think of ways we can further our education about these realities, as well as dialogue and find ways to act beyond the acknowledgement and challenge Indigenous erasure —as individuals and as a collective in this college.
The United Nations reminds us that there are over 476 million Indigenous peoples living in 90 countries across the world. We encourage you to take a moment and reflect on how, in the United States, we have not yet ratified the United Nations’ Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and only began to federally recognize Indigenous Peoples Day in 2021.
How will you reflect today, and beyond today? Within our Cañada College community, we have had the privilege to take students, faculty, and staff to the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering for numerous years, be in community, and be reminded about the social movement to occupy Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay Area. We encourage everyone to learn more about the social movements continuing to happen for Indigenous sovereignty.
If you are interested in finding community and or learning more about Indigeniety–please consider joining our campus in the following collective events:
What has changed in the world since Oct. 7th 2023?
October 15
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cultural Center, Building 17 Room 107
Pandanggo sa Ilaw Dance Workshop
October 16
10:30am - 12:30pm
Cultural Center, Building 17 Room 107
LatinX Heritage Month NUCLEI Social
October 16
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Undocumented Community Center, Building 9, Room 118
Interest Area Speaker Series: Tomas Ayuso
October 16
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Building 9, Room 154
October 16
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Cultural Center, Building 17 Room 107
Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Healing Drum Circle
October 22
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Cultural Center, Building 17 Room 107
Filipinx American Heritage Month Celebration: Dr. Faith Kazmi’s Box of Dreams
October 24
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Cultural Center, Building 17 Room 107
Story Circle with Indigenous Students
November 19
1:00am - 2:00am
Cultural Center, Building 17 Room 107
In Community,
Cultural Center and Office of Equity