Austin And Los Angeles Join The Growing Trend To Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous People's Day

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First Landing of Christopher Columbus in America (Photo Credit: Dióscoro Puebla [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

Columbus Day has been a fixture on American calendars since 1937, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared October 12 a federal holiday to honor the Italian explorer who “discovered” the Americas in 1492. However, the holiday, whose date has since been changed to the second Monday of October, has always been somewhat controversial. Many people believe that Christopher Columbus should not be given credit for “discovering” the continent, since Native Americans had already been residing there for generations.

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  • adroit_avimimus
    adroit_avimimus3년 이하
    This is a pretty interesting article. Though I'm not really in support of either side of the argument, this article does talk about both sides of it, which is a good report I'm doing about this!
    • kammeo
      kammeo3년 이상
      Cool
      • unknown_user14
        unknown_user144년 이하
        Awesome article, but they could have just move Indigenous Day AFTER Columbus Day (or something else that would work).
        • unipug2
          unipug24년 이상
          Does ANYONE think we should keep Colombia Day? What DID.Colombus do that everyone cares about anyway?
          • adowg34thereal
            adowg34thereal4년 이상
            Learning it to!!!
          • zaks
            zaks5년 이하
            I never thought about this... I guess having both days is the best idea for this.
            • cool facts5년 이상
              its called Columbus day because when Christopher Columbus found it he called them Indians so it could not have been refereed to as indigenous people day because he did not think that they were indigenous.
              • golycysy-156865872382
                golycysy-1568658723825년 이상
                love this story so much help
                • fgtv5년 이상
                  it is really cool....
                  • Clinton5년 이상
                    The first people to call this land home? Do you think no one was here before the native Americans? Who did they take this land from? I doubt they was the first to call it home.

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