Columbus Day celebrates the day Christopher Columbus landed in what ... All non-essential federal offices will be closed. Indigenous Peoples' Day is a national holiday to celebrate Native American ...

Christopher Columbus, a dead white male of the worst ... the shores of the “New World” and laid waste the ancient indigenous peoples there. Columbus deserves little credit (Leif Erikson ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer ... the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation of its indigenous peoples, often violently and eventually with disastrous ...

Small, the co-founder of Indigenous Peoples Day Montana ... Some took issue with past legislation that would have eliminated ...

Indigenous Peoples' Day has been federally recognized ... The grade school lesson about the explorer Christopher Columbus sailing the "ocean blue" is incomplete. Indigenous communities lived ...

Bowen said it’s important to attribute Christopher Columbus with the history ... began making extra efforts to change other landmarks, like Columbus Park, and rededicate them to Indigenous Peoples.

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, we're taking a closer ... yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples.

Advocates have long pushed to replace Columbus Day across the country with Indigenous Peoples Day to denounce Christopher Columbus’ treatment of Native Americans, who for millennia lived in the ...

Small, the co-founder of Indigenous Peoples Day Montana ... with past legislation that would have eliminated Columbus Day, arguing that Christopher Columbus is an important historical figure.