Columbus day weekend 202211/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a subject of the Hispanic Monarchy that led a Spanish enterprise searching for an alternative route to the Far East, only the journey landed them in the New World. ![]() On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus a Genovese-born explorer arrived in the Americas. Over the years this movement has gained momentum to where now well over a hundred cities recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day to focus on the contributions and history of Native peoples.CHARLOTTE – Marking the day that celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in America is important to our nation. Celebration of Indigenous Peoples spreadsĪlthough Columbus Day celebrates Italian heritage as well as the Genovese-born explorer’s discovery of the Americas on 12 October 1492, the history of harm and suffering that befell the inhabitants of the lands colonized created ever louder calls to change the focus of the holiday. The unanimous vote made Berkeley the first city to do away with celebrating the troubled history of the explorer/colonizer and instead celebrate Native Americans and is generally credited with starting Indigenous Peoples’ Day. QT ahead of Indigenous People's Day and Indigenous History & Heritage Month ✨✨✨ - UltraViolet has the #ReproReceipts September 28, 2022Īs celebrations were being organized in the San Francisco Bay Area for the “Quincentennial Jubilee” of the landing of Christopher Columbus in what is now the Bahamas, a group called Resistance 500 made plans for a counter-celebration. The group convinced the Berkeley City Council to replace the 12 October Columbus Day with the Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People in 1992. Lawmakers voted unanimously for the proposal and South Dakota became the first state to do away with Columbus Day and replace it with Native American Day. Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the of Wounded Knee Massacre, where US soldiers killed around 300 Lakota people, the governor of South Dakota responded to calls from Tim Giago, a Native American publisher, and asked the state’s legislature to proclaim 1990 as the “Year of Reconciliation” between Native Americans and whites. The idea of replacing Columbus Day with a holiday for first inhabitants of the Americas was first presented in 1977 by participants at the United Nations International Conference on Discrimination against Indigenous Populations in the Americas. A brief history of Indigenous Peoples’ Day As Indigenous Peoples’ Day falls on Columbus Day then the day is still free to celebrare however people wish. These are: the District of Columbia, Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Only four states and a territory recognise the day as a regional holiday. However, the proclamation doesn’t make it a federal holiday, that would require Congress to pass legislation cementing the day in the US calendar of federally recognized holidays. Last year, President Joe Biden made the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day giving the holiday celebrated in cities and states across the US an increased national spotlight. The holiday in 1992 on the 500th anniversary of the arrival in the Americas of Christopher Columbus and a flotilla of Spanish explorers. Indigenous Peoples’ Day was started as an alternative to Columbus Day, to bring recognition to native peoples’ histories and stories. ![]()
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