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** Honoring the Day
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October 13, 2025

With the disruption of the US Department of Education, I approached this school year with trepidation. But my child’s school system, which includes many students with disabilities, continues to honor educational plans and fulfill its mission of serving all students, whether schools are legally mandated to do so or not. The most common question teachers asked parents on back-to-school night was the simple but meaningful: How can we help?

Today, October 13, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We are continuing to celebrate and honor the histories and cultures of Indigenous peoples from firsthand accounts of listening to nature to advice on how philanthropy can support Native communities. We examine how interrupting narratives of race, class, and gender hierarchies is a key part of movement building, and we present a collection of curated articles by Native leaders.

Columbus Day is still a federal holiday. Indigenous Peoples’ Day is not—but we can honor the day and mark what matters to us: the contributions, rights, and freedom of all peoples. And we must continue to ask: How can we help?

Dr. Alison Stine

Climate Justice

Senior Editor

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** Must-Read Articles
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Listening to Chalchiuhtlicue Through the Río Grande’s Flow

by María-Luisa Ornelas-June

In the wake of extreme flooding in Texas, we are reminded that Chalchiuhtlicue—the Río Grande—is not a border to be militarized but a life force that sustains, protects, and has natural pattens that must be respected and learned.
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Can Non-Native Funders Embrace a Native Worldview?

by Erik Stegman and Rohit Menezes

How can philanthropy support Native people? Money helps, but it also requires rooting giving in values of reciprocity, responsibility, relationships, redistribution, and respect.
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Designing Counternarratives for the Nation’s 250th Anniversary

by Brea Baker

In Asheville, NC, Black and Indigenous narrative leaders came together this summer to imagine new stories of liberation as the United States nears its 250th anniversary.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day

NPQ has curated a collection of stories by Native American leaders, many of them women, who are leading the way through cultural grounding and nation-building in the areas of community development, environmental justice, and economic justice.
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