LINCOLN, Neb. —

Be in dancing in dazzling colors or stuck still in statues — pleading from the past for a brighter future — Native Americans have fingerprints all over American and Nebraskan history.

"If you can't recognize the first peoples, and if you continue to try to bury those stories, I think the beauty of America and a lot of the things that are happening now won't be healed," Judi Gaiashkibos, the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, said.

Some of Nebraska's native leaders shared their opposition on Monday to President Donald Trump's recent decision to ditch the name Indigenous Peoples Day and reinstate the name Columbus Day at the federal level.

"It does frustrate me, but we have lived with frustrations all our life," Gaiashkibos said.

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