{"id":11556,"date":"2024-06-21T07:47:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T12:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=11556"},"modified":"2024-06-21T07:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T12:47:49","slug":"national-indigenous-peoples-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=11556","title":{"rendered":"National Indigenous Peoples Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NatIndigenousPeoplesDay-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NatIndigenousPeoplesDay-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NatIndigenousPeoplesDay-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NatIndigenousPeoplesDay-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NatIndigenousPeoplesDay-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NatIndigenousPeoplesDay.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For generations, many Indigenous groups and communities have celebrated their culture and heritage on June 21 or around that time of year because of the significance of the summer solstice as the longest day of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Aboriginal Day, now National Indigenous Peoples Day, was announced in 1996 by then Governor General of Canada, Rom\u00e9o LeBlanc, through the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/regulations\/SI-96-55\/page-1.html\">Proclamation Declaring June&nbsp;21 of Each Year as National Aboriginal Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one day is not enough. There is a lot of work to do towards reconciliation. Today, celebrate Canada\u2019s Indigenous cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For generations, many Indigenous groups and communities have celebrated their culture and heritage on June 21 or around that time of year because of the significance of the summer solstice as the longest day of the year. National Aboriginal Day, now National Indigenous Peoples Day, was announced in 1996 by then Governor General of Canada, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=11556\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Indigenous Peoples Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11558,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions\/11558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}