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In 2021, the State of California amended section 135 of the Code of Civil Procedure (effective January 1, 2022), [1] making Native American Day a judicial holiday; Columbus Day remains on the list of holidays in Government Code 6700, [2] but it is no longer a judicial holiday.
In 2013, the California state legislature considered a bill, AB55, to formally replace Columbus Day with Native American Day but did not pass it. [23] While the California governor has recognized Indigenous Peoples Day, the holiday was eliminated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2008-12 California budget crisis . [ 24 ]
California has the largest population of Native Americans out of any state, with 1,252,083 identifying an "American Indian or Alaska Native" tribe as a component of their race (14.6% of the nation-wide total). [57]
Here’s the history behind Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and what some Native Americans say the holiday means for them. ... Indigenous Peoples' Day protest in Washington on October 11, 2021. - Sarah ...
October 6, 2023 at 9:55 PM. Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors the truth about the American soil we live on. Set on the second Monday of every October, the day serves as a counter-celebration to ...
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, California’s first Native American state lawmaker, penned the 2021 bill that brought the monument effort to life. Gov. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the ...
The city symbolically renamed Columbus Day as "Indigenous Peoples' Day" beginning in 1992 to protest the historical conquest of North America by Europeans, and to call attention to the losses suffered by the Native American peoples and their cultures through diseases, warfare, massacres, and forced assimilation. 1994. Santa Cruz, California
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