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Indigenous Peoples' Day is observed on the same day, Monday, Oct. 14. Is Indigenous Peoples' Day an official holiday? It depends on where you live, but Columbus Day is still a federal holiday.
Banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America will also be closed for Indigenous Peoples' Day and Columbus Day. Chase's branches will be opened, but it will treat online transactions the same way it ...
Approximately 29 states and Washington, D.C., do not celebrate Columbus Day, and over 200 cities have replaced it with Indigenous Peoples' Day. Contributing: USA Today Network
Columbus Day, also called Indigenous Peoples Day, may be a federal holiday, but it's also one of the nation's most inconsistently celebrated days, according to Pew Research. Even though the event ...
The second Monday of October marks Columbus Day and Indigenous People's Day, here is what to know about the history of Columbus Day.
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 ...
The day was originally recognized to mark Columbus' arrival in America back in 1492. According to Britannica .com, "Italian immigrants in the United States began celebrating Columbus Day in 1792."
Which brings us to Columbus himself: Indigenous Peoples’ Day highlights the brutal history of the man, and his treatment of the Indigenous people he found already living in the Americas when he ...