Is it Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples' Day? City by city choices

Oct 10, 2016 403

Are you celebrating Columbus Day on Monday? Inhabitants of US cities from Santa Cruz, Calif., to Belfast, Maine, will instead observe Indigenous Peoples' Day next week. On Wednesday, as Phoenix, Ariz., became the largest city to make the switch, Bostonians rallied outside City Hall to press for a similar change.

Advocates say that the name change recognizes the consequences of Columbus's arrival – the process of European settlement that caused the deaths of countless indigenous peoples and the loss of their lands. But some say that renaming Columbus Day obscures the discrimination once experienced by Italian Americans, whom the holiday was originally instituted to honor.

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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/

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