Localities in our community are celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday.

Chapel Hill and Carrboro adopted resolutions in 2015 recognizing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The recognition has been growing in recent years as a counterpoint to Columbus Day, which is listed as a federal holiday.

Events are being sponsored by the Town of Chapel Hill, the UNC American Indian Center and the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation throughout the day on Monday.

Johnny “Blackfeather” Jeffries is scheduled to lead a program on the creation and demonstration of primitive tools and weapons beginning at four o’clock Monday afternoon at the Hargraves Softball Field at 216 N Roberson Street.

A Talking Circle is also scheduled for Monday evening with members of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Sappony and Lumbee tribes facilitated by the UNC American Indian Center. The panel will discuss the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The panel is set to begin at six o’clock Monday evening in Meeting Room B of the Chapel Hill Public Library.

The documentary Survival of the Circle is also scheduled to be shown at six o’clock Monday evening in the gymnasium at the Chapel Hill Community Center at 120 S Estes Drive.

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