'Standing Eagle' to speak at Farmington Public Library
November is Native American Heritage Month, celebrating Indigenous peoples past and present.Park Hills resident Matthew Aguilar, aka "Standing Eagl...
November is Native American Heritage Month, celebrating Indigenous peoples past and present.Park Hills resident Matthew Aguilar, aka "Standing Eagle," will be giving a lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21 in the Farmington Public Library. The event is free and open to the public.Aguilar's family on his father's side came originally from Mexico in the early 1900s. In the '30s when his father was growing up, Aguilar explained his father had to hide the culture.According to Aguilar, it was not until his generation, known in Native circles as the seventh fire generation, where the heritage and culture started to be celebrated, both in the United States and in Mexico.