A few Places Are Celebrating A Different Holiday On Columbus Day

Their efforts have been successful in several USA cities this year.

While October. 12 is the federal Columbus Day holiday, and is a state holiday in many parts of the country, Oregon never adopted the holiday in its calendar.

Outgoing Albuquerque City Council President Rey Garduno is calling for the city to celebrate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

However, the movement to replace Columbus Day isn’t brand new. How about “Bartolomé de las Casas Day”?

Although debates rage on about exactly how much damage Europeans inflicted on Native populations immediately after their arrival, a few estimate that up to 90 percent of the continent’s first inhabitants died from warfare, enslavement, or diseases, violence which carried into the American government’s discriminatory policies through the 19th and early 20th century, and are still felt today, when 25 percent live in poverty, versus the United States average of 15 percent. Columbus’s encounter with the New World was earth-changing, and it was a genuine discovery.

Berkeley, California, was the first city to drop Columbus Day, replacing it in 1992 with Indigenous Peoples Day. And then the Vikings mislaid the information and forgot about it. A pity, that.

If you don’t like “Bartolemé Day”, consider “Marco Polo Day”. “Eriksson is claimed to have discovered America almost 5 centuries previous to Columbus” visit, in accordance to the Historical past Channel. The day will honor their ancestors.

“To have a recognition and celebration of all the indigenous cultures of the US, and Berkeley being one of the catalysts leading that charge, is very exciting”, said Barichello, who says he is half Italian and half Muscogee, a Native American tribe based in Oklahoma.

Just don’t bother to define or identify “natives”.

The three-day weekend is more often celebrated in New England as the kickoff to the fall foliage season and, in North County, the day of the annual Mount Greylock Ramble, a hike up the state’s tallest mountain along the Cheshire Harbor Trail from 8 to 4. This new wave may represent a broader shift in how Americans view Native American rights, or at least the growing local political influence of indigenous groups.

Newstead Councilman Justin Rooney pushed for this back in May, when the town board unanimously designated the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrated by most as Columbus Day.