Honoring Indigenous People’s Day
In observance of Indigenous People’s Day, on Oct. 8 Indigenous People’s of the Coastal Bend (IPCB) celebrated an event with the reading of the Corpus Christi’s proclamation, speaking on a current federal lawsuit against Enbridge Oil Export Terminal, and lastly a dance from the Mexican Indigenous danzantes, the Spanish word meaning dancer, from the group Kalpulli Ehekatl Papalotzin. To start off the event, co- founder of IPCB, Love Sanchez, read off the City of Corpus Christi proclamation dedicating the second Monday of October as Indigenous People’s Day. “We honor the Karankawa, Lipan/Apache … any extinct tribes and other tribes that…