Cook County commissioner urges pause on changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, reveals he is descended from slaves owned by Choctaw tribe

Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore, who opposes an ordinance to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day, holds a family photo of his great-great-grandfather, William Alford Trotter, top row, third from right, at the Gerald Griffin Gallery in Chicago on May 28, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)