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Not all Democrats have denounced Columbus Day, which was first designated a national holiday in 1934 to mark explorer Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas in 1492.
About 216 cities have renamed it or replaced it with Indigenous Peoples' Day, according to renamecolumbusday.org. Some states recognize Indigenous Peoples Day via proclamation, while others treat ...
On October 10, 2019, just a few days before Columbus Day would be celebrated in Washington, D.C., the D.C. Council voted to temporarily replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. [33] This bill was led by Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) and must undergo congressional approval to become permanent. [33]
Maine, New Mexico, Vermont and D.C. renamed the day Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2019. Beyond Indigenous People's Day, there are other names for the second Monday in October.
The city symbolically renamed Columbus Day as "Indigenous Peoples' Day" beginning in 1992 [4] to protest the historical conquest of North America by Europeans, and to call attention to the losses suffered by the Native American peoples and their cultures [5] through diseases, warfare, massacres, and forced assimilation.
In 1966, Mariano A. Lucca, from Buffalo, New York, founded the National Columbus Day Committee, which lobbied to make Columbus Day a federal holiday. [21] These efforts were successful and legislation to create Columbus Day as a federal holiday was signed by President Lyndon Johnson on June 28, 1968, to be effective beginning in 1971. [22] [23]
Columbus Day celebrates the day Christopher Columbus landed in what would become North America in 1492. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt marked Oct. 12 as a national holiday. It was moved ...
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