National Native American Heritage Month

"Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.

We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children"
- Ancient Indian Proverb
 

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Stay awhile and learn a fact or two about a few of many Native Americans.
It started off with only wanting one day of recognition for what the first Americans contributed then it turned into a whole month. It all started with wanting just a day when Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, wanted the Boy Scouts of America to have a day for the First Americans. That continued for 3 years. On Sept. 28, 1915, Coolidge proposed a proclamation which declared the second Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day and the first formal appeal for recognition of Indians as citizens. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush  designated November to be  "National American Indian Heritage Month."

 

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