Native American people will celebrate their centuries-long history of resilience on Monday with ceremonies, dances and speeches.

Events across the U.S. come four years after President Joe Biden officially commemorated Indigenous Peoples Day. An increasing number of states and cities have also recognized it — pivoting from a day long rooted in the celebration of explorer Christopher Columbus to one focused on the people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.

“This day is about reclaiming histories,” said Kyle Mays, an associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It's acknowledging the history of dispossession and violence against Indigenous people.”

In April, President Donald Trump said he would not follow in Bi

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