The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. The event culminated 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.
More than seven decades later, then-President George H.W. Bush in 1990 signed a joint congressional resolution designating the month of November “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations have been issued every year since 1994 to recognize the community.
2023 Native American and Indigenous Heritage Month events will be updated here when available.
MSA recognizes that the land on which we inhabit at UNG is physically situated on the ancestral homelands of the following tribes: