Photographs of Berkeley Celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow

Sunday, October 13, 2019

Photographs of Berkeley Celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow

By Levi Rickert - October 13, 2019 at 09:08PM

Published October 13, 2019

BERKELEY, Calif. — The San Francisco Bay American Indian community celebrated the 27th Annual Berkeley Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow at the Martin Luther King Civic Center Park in Berkeley, California on Saturday, October 12, 2019.

Berkeley, California was the first city in the United States to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day in 1992. Indigenous groups and allies took their argument to the Berkeley City Council to establish the holiday in place of Columbus Day.

While Columbus Day remains a national holiday, some 120 cities across America have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day.

Phtographer Christopher Burquez captured the excitement of the day in the following photographs: