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Community members celebrate Indigenous People’s Day in Carbondale

Community members share insights and reflections about the day and offerings they brought to the ceremony.
Katalina Villarreal
Community members share insights and reflections about the day and offerings they brought to the ceremony at Sopris Park.

Columbus Day, originally observed Oct. 12, commemorates the date in 1492 when Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. In many localities and across the USA, Indigenous People’s Day has come to replace the holiday marking the arrival of colonialism in the New World.

Marilyn Gleason is a graduate of CU Boulder's journalism school. She started her radio career in the Roaring Fork Valley at KAJX in Aspen, then came to KDNK in 2000 as the station was in the early stages of forming a local news program. Marilyn returns to direct a growing news team at KDNK.