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Each year, more cities, states and universities opt to celebrate an alternative to Columbus Day: Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Instead of honoring Christopher Columbus, the Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes Native Americans, who were the first inhabitants of the land that later became the United States of America. Advocates for the switch to Indigenous Peoples Day argue that Columbus did not “discover” America in 1492 but instead began the colonization of it.
For decades, Native American activists have advocated abolishing Columbus Day, which became a federal holiday in 1937.
http://time.com/4968067/indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-cities/
Many of those who don’t have to work today are just glad to have the time off. But for the approximately 15,097 Massachusetts residents who identified as Native American or Alaskan Native in 2017 according to the US Census, the holiday means a lot more.
Instead of Columbus Day, some municipalities in the state are recognizing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. Mahtowin Munro of Watertown, of the Lakota Nation, has led the effort to inform the public about what historians call “the Columbus Controversy.”
“The actions of Columbus and his men decimated the original peoples of the Caribbean and paved the way for the genocide and enslavement of millions more indigenous peoples throughout the Americas in the coming centuries,” Munro said.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/10/07/indigenous-peoples-day-tufts-harvard/LiAxI5hS7cAJtZwkh4SayN/story.html
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