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Generations of Native Americans have protested Columbus Day, calling for its renaming because "the colonial takeovers of the Americas, starting with Columbus, led to the deaths of millions of...
Columbus Day, which is now called Indigenous Peoples Day in some states, will be celebrated on Monday, October 9.
Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. He went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492 [OS].
Columbus Day celebrations in the United States – meant to honor the legacy of the man credited with “discovering” the New World – are almost as old as the nation itself. The earliest known Columbus...
The commemoration of Native American history and culture is now federally recognized alongside Columbus Day, which has been historically observed on the same day.
Columbus Day will be observed at the beginning of next week. While many people still honor the memory of Columbus coming to America and use it to celebrate Italian-American heritage, many...
On Thursday, Washington, D.C., voted to temporarily change the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. If approved by the mayor, the act would go into effect immediately. On Friday,...
In Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, the day is known as both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. The state holiday is known officially as Indigenous Peoples' Day in New Mexico, Maine, Vermont and D.C.
Although the federal holiday on the second Monday in October is still officially called Columbus Day, President Biden has for the past two years also proclaimed it Indigenous Peoples’ Day, as have dozens of state and localities around the country.
However, Columbus Day is still an official federal holiday. Multiple representatives and senators recently introduced the bicameral Indigenous Peoples’ Day Act to replace Columbus Day.