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Traditionally, the second Monday of October, many Americans celebrate Columbus Day. But do not be surprised if your city or city does not commit to beingChristopher ColombusThis year. Recently, more and more Americans choose to celebrate the day of indigenous peoples, who instead recognizes the first people to populate the lands later the United States.

Columbus day officiallycelebrate The arrival of Columbus's birthday in the Americas, October 12, 1492. This has been aFederal holidays since 1937but, since states and cities canchoose if They want to participate in a federal vacation, more opt for the federal vacation. CriticismArgue To celebrate Columbus Day, we glorify the mass genocide and colonization of the people from the United States. Activists from the Aboriginal community who first proposed the idea of ​​eliminating Columbus's day see Columbus not like an explorer, but as the personresponsible for the genocide of their people.

The idea ofReplacing the Columbus day with a celebration of indigenous peoples was proposed for the first time in 1977 at the International Conference on Discrimination, sponsored by the United Nations. But the day of indigenous peoples did not compromise until 1992, when theIndian Alliance of the Bay Area In California proposed successfully at the Berkeley Municipal Council to designate Columbus Day this year (October 12) like Solidarity Day with Aboriginal Peoples. (They also asked Berkeley City to implement an education program in schools, libraries and museums that celebrated Aboriginal cultures instead of Columbus itself.) Every year since, the city of Berkeley In California celebrated indigenous peoples every year on what is traditionally Columbus day.

"[Columbus] was one of the first Europeans to go to the American continent, but there was a lot of story that came after that in terms of Aboriginal wiping", the former Mayor of BerkeleyLoni HancockRecountTime In 2014. "It simply did not seem appropriate. It seemed to be a reimphasis of history and recognizing that very ethnocentric really decreases us all."

The Day of Indigenous Peoplessocket many different forms. There are educational opportunities such as conferences and exhibitions, aimed at raising awareness and history of indigenous peoples. And some people toouse That day to protest against Columbus and its treatment of indigenous peoples.

As at October 10, 2019, the day of indigenous peoples is officially celebrated in eight US-Maine, New Mexico, Vermont, North Carolina, Alaska, South Dakota, Oregon and Wisconsin-and 130 cities in the United States. And more recently, Washington, D.C., has also joined.

District Council Columbia approved emergency legislationRename Columbus Day asAboriginal Peoples Day October 9, 2019. "Columbus enslaved, colonized, mutilated and massacred thousands of aboriginal people in the Americas, "D.c. Council member of the CouncilDavid Grossosaid in adeclaration. "We are a government that values ​​equality, diversity and inclusion. Continue to observe a vacation built on the celebration of oppression manages their values." And for more ways to review the past of our country, learn everythingThe 40 most lasting myths of American history.

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