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Moving away from Columbus Day and celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day helps to recognize Indigenous perspectives for a more complete look at history, the museum states.
This shift from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day can also be seen more recently. For example, the City of Newton, Massachusetts voted to change the name of the holiday in 2020. [19] Since then, Indigenous residents of Newton have banded together to host an annual Indigenous Peoples Day Ceremonial Celebration to commemorate the day. [20 ...
The federal Crown has begun referring to the day as National Indigenous Peoples Day, regardless. [4] This day has been celebrated as a statutory territorial holiday in the Northwest Territories since 2001 and in Yukon since 2017. It is not however, currently considered a statutory holiday across the rest of the country. [5]
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday in the United States that was created in reaction to Columbus Day, a national holiday dedicated to celebrating the explorer who led expeditions to the ...
U.S. President Joe Biden signs proclamations expanding the areas of three national monuments at the White House on October 08, 2021 in Washington, DC.
As of August 30, the Los Angeles City Council authorized the celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day in place of Columbus Day. [93] September. On September 11, Orono became the third city in Maine to adopt Indigenous Peoples' Day. [94] On September 18, both Brunswick and Portland in Maine adopted the change to Indigenous Peoples Day. [95] [96 ...
At a 1977 United Nations conference in Geneva, Indigenous delegates from around the world resolved “to observe October 12, the day of so-called ‘discovery’ of America, as an International ...
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