Attendees of the Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration at the Global Justice Center dance in a circle on Oct. 13 while the Four Winds Drum Group performs. The Indigenous Alliance Without Borders hosted its 11th annual celebration in South Tucson.
The sky was gray on Monday, but on a strip of West 26th Street, colors were everywhere as the Indigenous Alliance Without Borders welcomed communities from Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in South Tucson with the theme “Planting Seeds of Change.”
Indigenous Peoples’ Day was first recognized federally in 2021 by then-president Joe Biden and is widely known as a counter-celebration to Columbus Day, which falls on the same day…