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SUMMARY:Native American Heritage Month
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251201
ORGANIZER:�鶹������ý ISD
DESCRIPTION:About National Native American Heritage Month (Source) What sta
	rted at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition 
	for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establis
	hment and growth of the U.S.\, has resulted in a whole month being designa
	ted for that purpose. One of the very proponents of an American Indian Day
	 was Dr. Arthur C. Parker\, a Seneca Indian\, who was the director of the 
	Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester\, N.Y. He persuaded the Boy Scouts
	 of America to set aside a day for the “First Americans” and for three
	 years they adopted such a day. In 1915\, the annual Congress of the Ameri
	can Indian Association meeting in Lawrence\, Kans.\, formally approved a p
	lan concerning American Indian Day. It directed its president\, Rev. Sherm
	an Coolidge\, an Arapahoe\, to call upon the country to observe such a day
	. Coolidge issued a proclamation on Sept. 28\, 1915\, which declared the s
	econd Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day and contained the fir
	st formal appeal for recognition of Indians as citizens. The year before t
	his proclamation was issued\, Red Fox James\, a Blackfoot Indian\, rode ho
	rseback from state to state seeking approval for a day to honor Indians. O
	n December 14\, 1915\, he presented the endorsements of 24 state governmen
	ts at the White House. There is no record\, however\, of such a national d
	ay being proclaimed. The first American Indian Day in a state was declared
	 on the second Saturday in May 1916 by the governor of New York. Several s
	tates celebrate the fourth Friday in September. In Illinois\, for example\
	, legislators enacted such a day in 1919. Presently\, several states have 
	designated Columbus Day as Native American Day\, but it continues to be a 
	day we observe without any recognition as a national legal holiday. In 199
	0 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating Nove
	mber 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamat
	ions\, under variants on the name (including “Native American Heritage M
	onth” and “National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
	”) have been issued each year since 1994.
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