‘We of the first light are still here’

‘We of the first light are still here’

Nestled in the woodlands of Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown, indigenous and non-indigenous community members gathered Monday afternoon for Sassafras Earth Education’s fifth annual Indigenous People’s Day celebration. Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, is an official federal holiday, and is acknowledged as a paid holiday in Massachusetts. But many states, cities, and school systems  across the country, including Martha’s Viney…