AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE MONTH
The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1016 in New York. The event cumulated an effort by Red Fox James, a member of the Blackfeet Nation who rode across the nation on horseback seeking approval from 24 state governments to have a day to honor American Indians. In 1990, more than seven decades later, then President George H.W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution designating the month of November "National American Indian Heritage [...]