Christopher Columbus: Indigeous Peoples Day Video
Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day? - USA TODAY Christopher Columbus: Indigeous Peoples Day
The holiday Columbys: been gaining support across the country as Seattle, Minneapolis and Berkeley, Calif. Berkeley was the first city, and South Dakota the first state, in the United States to recognize the holiday in Columbus Day honors Christopher Columbus and his arrival in the Americas in Columbus Day was first recognized in when then-President Franklin D.
Roosevelt made it a federal holiday. Lobbying by Italian-American community groups led to its creation as a holiday starting in the early s.
Columbus Day has been criticized for celebrating the discovery of a place that was already inhabited and because Columbus himself is considered responsible for the rape and murder of those indigenous people. Killsback also noted that Columbus never actually landed in what in the now the United States.
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