Gavin Noyes: Time for Utah’s state holiday to have different name

In Utah, July 24 is a state holiday, officially named “Pioneer Day.” We hold parades, have big firework displays, rodeos and, most years, we barbecue with family and friends.July 24, 1847, however, also marks the day our state was colonized. Pioneer Day is the anniversary of when that Mormon exiles from east of the Mississippi invaded Native American homelands. To some, this public holiday commemorates the occupation of stolen lands, the diversion of waters, the extirpation of wildli