President Biden, in 2021, became the first U.S. president to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day officially. That year, he proclaimed to observe the second Monday in October as a day to honor Native Americans, their “resilience and strength” and determination to preserve “land, language, spirit, knowledge, and tradition," even as they have faced a “centuries-long campaign of violence, displacement, assimilation, and terror,” he said.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/11/1044823626/indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans-columbus