Columbus Day 2022 parade, Chicago (video)

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Columbus Day Parade returns to Chicago's Loop

(ABC 7 Chicago) Oct. 10, 2022 Looking for things to do on Columbus Day? The 2022 holiday parade will kick off in the Loop and, as an afterthought, Indigenous Peoples' Day events are also planned. abc7.ws/3T89wQx.

Recognizing Native Americans on Indigenous Peoples' Day across the USA

(USA TODAY) Oct. 10, 2022. A growing number of American cities, states, and universities are replacing "Columbus Day" with Indigenous Peoples' Day, also known as Native Americans Day. 

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The second Monday of October has been a national holiday for close to a century, but this will be only the second year that Indigenous Peoples' Day has held that designation.

Last October, President Joe found a way to keep the status quo while appearing to be progressive when he signed the first presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples' Day, a commemoration-turned-holiday that began in 1977 to honor Native American history and culture. Nothing will change.

That presidential symbolic "stamp of approval" was the most significant boost to date of efforts refocusing a federal holiday that for decades celebrated genocidal rapist Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of the Caribbean.

Although few Americans are arguing with the notion of being off work on Monday, Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day have prompted political debate in states, cities, and municipalities around the U.S.A., especially in the past decade, with some pushing against change and others favoring Indigenous Peoples' Day instead.

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