Utah celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day with speeches, song and dance
By The Salt Lake Tribune
| Oct. 12, 2020, 8:13 p.m.
| Updated: Oct. 13, 2020, 7:20 a.m.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Chase Hobson waits for his turn to dance at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
Chase Hobson
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carl Moore speaks at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration on
Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A woman is blessed with smoke during the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carl Moore arranges names of murdere3d and missing indigenous women and girls, at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Michelle Brown, campaign chair of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women organization speaks at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carl Moore dances at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Shelly Etsitty does a jingle dance at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
Shelly Etsitty does a jingle dance
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Moroni Benally speaks at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Shelly Etsitty does a jingle dance at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
Shelly Etsitty does a jingle dance
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Shelly Etsitty does a jingle dance at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
Shelly Etsitty does a jingle dance
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carl Moore dances at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Chase Hobson dances at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
Some 200 people gathered in Salt Lake City on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day.
This countercelebration to Columbus Day featured Native American songs, blessings and dancing as well as food such as blue corn mush and Navajo tea.
According to a 2012 report from the United States Department of Justice, Native American women are murdered at a rate more than 10 times the national average on some reservations.
The event was sponsored by The Utah League of American Voters and took place in front of the Breonna Taylor Memorial at 900 South and 300 West. Taylor, a Black woman, was shot multiple times by white officers in Louisville, Ky., after Taylor’s boyfriend fired at them, authorities said.
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