A group of students in Akron will be marking Columbus Day by joining a group of Native Americans in a walk along the city鈥檚 historic Portage Path.
The event acknowledges the people who lived here before Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
The walk is organized by the as part of its ongoing program with the Northern Cheyenne Nation in Montana.
Burt Medicine Bull is a teacher and tribal elder.
He says walking the that linked the Cuyahoga and the Tuscarawas rivers puts him in touch with the Native people who once lived here, even if they鈥檙e long gone.
鈥淭he spirits of those Nations, they鈥檙e still around, that鈥檚 what we think,鈥� says Medicine Bull.
Around 200 students from at least four Akron schools are taking part in the walk, which is co-sponsored by the .
The Lippman School says the walk is not anti-Columbus Day, but rather embraces the region鈥檚 entire history.
Last month voted down a resolution to rename the holiday Indigenous Peoples Day.
