Indianz.Com > News > Gaylord News: Indigenous Peoples’ Day continues momentum across nation
![Piominko](https://indianz.com/News/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/22/Piominko-scaled.jpg)
Tribal members across Oklahoma reflect on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Monday, November 22, 2021
Gaylord News
Grayson, 59, a Muscogee Nation citizen and Freedman descendant who lives in Tulsa, calls himself an “unabashed advocate and financial supporter of the rights of the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes.”
He said he doesn’t concern himself with what Oklahoma, other states or even President Joe Biden are doing – although Biden was the first to issue a presidential proclamation acknowledging the holiday – because Grayson thinks this celebration and honor should fall on the tribes.
His tribe doesn’t have a separate day officializing the holiday, nor any holidays commemorating its warriors or heroes, something Grayson finds hypocritical.
Today, we observe #PiominkoDay in the Chickasaw Nation and remember the influential Chickasaw leader for his service to…
Posted by The Chickasaw Nation on Monday, October 11, 2021
![Sequoyah](https://indianz.com/News/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/22/Sequoyah.jpg)
Nancy Marie Spears, a Gaylord News reporter based in Washington, D.C., is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. For more stories from Gaylord News, visit GaylordNews.net.
Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
Search
Filed Under
Tags
More Headlines
Indian Country set for big and busy week on Capitol Hill
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation honors Wilma Mankiller with new park
Native America Calling: President Biden drops out and rethinking community landscaping
Source New Mexico: Republican lawmaker eyes Deb Haaland’s job
Native America Calling: The message from the sacred white buffalo calf
Native America Calling: Making the case for a Republican president
Native talent lands nominations for annual Emmy Awards
Source New Mexico: Tribal leader discusses public safety at Republican convention
TRANSCRIPT: James Crawford, Chairman of Forest County Potawatomi Community, at Republican Convention
VIDEO: James Crawford, Chairman of Forest County Potawatomi Community, at Republican Convention
AUDIO: James Crawford, Chairman of Forest County Potawatomi Community, at Republican Convention
Native America Calling: Assessing control of Congress
‘Bring our kids home’: Winnebago Tribe in court over children buried at Indian boarding school
Cronkite News: Republicans continue to deny impacts of climate change
Native America Calling: The common ground between Republican and Native American values
More Headlines
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation honors Wilma Mankiller with new park
Native America Calling: President Biden drops out and rethinking community landscaping
Source New Mexico: Republican lawmaker eyes Deb Haaland’s job
Native America Calling: The message from the sacred white buffalo calf
Native America Calling: Making the case for a Republican president
Native talent lands nominations for annual Emmy Awards
Source New Mexico: Tribal leader discusses public safety at Republican convention
TRANSCRIPT: James Crawford, Chairman of Forest County Potawatomi Community, at Republican Convention
VIDEO: James Crawford, Chairman of Forest County Potawatomi Community, at Republican Convention
AUDIO: James Crawford, Chairman of Forest County Potawatomi Community, at Republican Convention
Native America Calling: Assessing control of Congress
‘Bring our kids home’: Winnebago Tribe in court over children buried at Indian boarding school
Cronkite News: Republicans continue to deny impacts of climate change
Native America Calling: The common ground between Republican and Native American values
More Headlines