EAST LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The city of East Lansing is looking to adopt a resolution recognizing Oct. 13 as Indigenous Peoples Day and acknowledge the “irreplaceable loss to our collective humanity for the act committed against our indigenous family.”

The resolution is before the city council at its Oct. 7 meeting.

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It states that the indigenous population was “resisting the occupation of sacred lands indigenous people were enslaved, murdered, and forcibly removed from ancestral lands; and,” … “their populations were decimated through genocide and other unspeakable crimes, to support European colonization of the Americas.”

The resolution states the city has recognized the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day since 2016.

Since 2020, the city of East Lansing has this land acknowledgment announced before every public meeting: “The City of East Lansing occupies the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.”

In 2022, the East Lansing city council renamed Abbot Road Park as Azaadiikaa Park. The resolution stated that Azaadiikaa Park translated in English to “the many cottonwoods.”

The Oct. 7 resolution stated, “the Anishinaabe, Indigenous, Black, and multi-racial women appointed to the Committee for the Renaming of Abbot Road Park came together in a good way, with traditional medicines and humble appeals for guidance from the place they looked to help name.”