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On August 21, Oberlin, Ohio officially approved the change to Indigenous Peoples' Day. [91] One week later, on August 28, Bangor, Maine made it official as well. [92] As of August 30, the Los Angeles City Council authorized the celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day in place of Columbus Day. [93] September
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 ...
Indigenous Peoples Day is celebrated instead of Columbus Day in some states. Here's why.
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 ...
Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.
In 2024, Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day fall on Monday, Oct. 14. The holidays occur annually on the second Monday of October. Post offices will close, as well as many public schools.
Dec. 1—GROTON — The Town of Groton has joined a movement of communities and states that no longer observe Columbus Day, as it will now observe the holiday on the second Monday in October as ...
The government of Mexico City, headed by Claudia Sheinbaum, announced on 12 October 2021 that a replica of The Young Woman of Amajac was intended to officially replace the Monument to Christopher Columbus, at a roundabout along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma. The Columbus statue was removed in October 2020 by the local government under the ...