Columbus? Indigenous Peoples' Day (Oct. 12)

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Not "A Nation of Immigrants"

Indigenous Peoples' Day [1] is an official US holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures.

It is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October as an official city and state holiday in various localities.

It began as a counter-celebration held on the same day as the US federal holiday of "Columbus Day," which honors Jewish-Italian imperialist slave driver Christopher Columbus.

On an Oct. 2 long ago, RD-O in Berkeley

Many reject celebrating Columbus, saying that he represents "the violent history of the colonization in the Western Hemisphere" [2] and that "Columbus Day" is a sanitization and covering-up of Columbus' actions such as enslaving, raping, and mass murdering Native Americans [3, 4].

Indigenous Peoples' Day was instituted in Berkeley, California, in 1992, to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus to the Americas on October 12, 1492.

Somewhere there must be a best of list.

But Columbus in fact never stepped on the continent but did seem to dock on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

Two years later Santa Cruz, California, instituted the holiday [5]. And starting in 2014, many other cities and states adopted the holiday [6]. More