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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIndigenous Peoples' Day to replace Columbus Day
10.14.2019 - Indigenous Peoples' DayIndigenous Peoples' Day is a holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. It is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October, and is an official city and state holiday in various localities. It began as a counter-celebration held on the same day as the U.S. federal holiday of Columbus Day, which honors Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Many now reject celebrating him, saying that he represents "the violent history of the colonization in the Western Hemisphere".
Indigenous Peoples' Day began in 1989 in South Dakota, where Lynn Hart and Governor Mickelson backed a resolution to celebrate Native American day on the second Monday of October, marking the beginning of the year of reconciliation in 1990.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples%27_Day
Multiple States and communities recognize today as Indigenous Peoples' Day
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Indigenous Peoples' Day to replace Columbus Day (Original Post)
mysteryowl
Oct 2019
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scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)1. sounds good to me
Columbus, a lost white guy that though he was in India and then made slaves of the peaceful people he found
A TOTAL IDIOT we should not have a special day for him except to say how horrible he was
mysteryowl
(7,396 posts)2. I believe Columbus Day started in the 1930's by Italian Catholics
It is indeed time for Columbus Day to go away.
It is time for:
Indigenous Peoples' Day
maveric
(16,446 posts)3. As an Italian-American I agree with this.
Columbus was a putz and a murderer of Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.
An embarrassment to Italian-Americans.
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)4. Tribal Map of America Shows Whose Land You're Actually Living On A history worth exploring on Indige
Tribal Map of America Shows Whose Land You're Actually Living On
A history worth exploring on Indigenous People's Day.
[link:https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/a23652890/tribal-map-indigenous-peoples-day-2018/?fbclid=IwAR3crEzz2v4PRtPVHnC1bH_K8BnLFnBgZPcZAxSEZcXpKEfG1KhqQwK9Km8|
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)5. thanks!
I'm in the overlap of Shawnee, Cherokee, Osage.