Important Dates in the Month of November

November is National Native American Heritage Month.

 November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance.

 November 27th is Native American Heritage Day.

In the HRC article “Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2020,” it’s reported, “Sadly, 2020 has already seen at least 33 transgender or gender non-conforming people fatally shot or killed by other violent means, the majority of which were Black and Latinx transgender women. We say at least because too often these stories go unreported -- or misreported. Since HRC began tracking this data in 2013, advocates have never seen such a high number at this point in the year.” In the Press Release “Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David on the Unprecedented Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2020,” Elizabeth Bibi wrote, “The HRC Foundation will be releasing it’s 2020 report on fatal violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people in late November in recognition of Transgender Day of Rememberance (November 20th).”

On the Native Hope “Native American Heritage Day” page, I read, “November is Native American Heritage Month. This month was established to honor and recognize Native Americans as the first people of this nation and to celebrate both their cultural heritage and integral importance to our past, our present, and our future.” Regarding Native American Heritage Day, I read, “Brian Perry, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and a Native Hope ambassador, shares his poignant thoughts about the highly commercial day that was chosen as the national day to honor the Native American heritage and people of our country. He states: ‘As a Native American, I feel slighted. The day after Thanksgiving? Almost an afterthought. With November being Native American Heritage Month, there are 28 other days to select from with of course Thanksgiving having its long established day to itself. Why must we take a backseat to Thanksgiving? Why not the day before Thanksgiving?...The day after Thanksgiving is one of the most irrelevant days of the year. Most people are off work, families travel, and there is very little in the news cycle. What is the day after Thanksgiving known as in America? Black Friday—not Native American Heritage Day. It is a day when the American consumer plots out the best bargains at the best retailers at the best times to contribute to the American GDP. Not a word or mention in the mainstream media about Native American Heritage Day, just videos of adults fist fighting at 4:00 in the morning in stores over the last trendy toy in stock for this year's Season of Giving. Are we Native Americans the Forgotten America? Voices Unheard. When a national civil holiday occurs that hardly anyone knows about...I begin to wonder.’”

Kaitlin Curtice wrote the blog post “10 Books by Indigenous Authors to Get Us Through 2020,” which includes titles such as The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith, and her book Native.

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