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This year, Indigenous Peoples' Day will be celebrated on Monday, October 9, 2023. How is Indigenous Peoples' Day celebrated? Indigenous Peoples' Day is more a day of recognition and mourning than ...
Monday is Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. The explorer had a violent history among Native Americans, and many say we should honor them.
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 ...
Way back in the 1970s, Indigenous rights activists were flagging the problematic implications of recognizing Columbus Day as a national holiday—ya know, due to the fact that he didn't actually ...
A proposal to rename the day National Indigenous Peoples Day was made in 2017. The bill to make that change (C-369) was still being debated by parliament when the legislature was dissolved. [3] The federal Crown has begun referring to the day as National Indigenous Peoples Day, regardless. [4]
A House Bill was introduced in the legislature of the State of New Hampshire that would rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day statewide. [125] February. School board officials in Southampton, New York voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day on all school calendars. [126] July
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 ...
A demonstrator is detained and carried by members of the US Secret Service and US Park Police during an Indigenous Peoples' Day protest in Washington on October 11, 2021.