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Native American Heritage Month - November 2023
November is Native American Heritage Month, aka American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. While the annual month-long celebration has been in existence for only 33 years, efforts to honor Native Americans go back more than a century to “American Indian Day,” which was declared a holiday by the Governor of New York State in 1916 and celebrated on the second Saturday in May. Fast forward to 1986, when Congress declared th