Columbus Day Has Been A Federal Holiday Since 1934, Maine and Vermont have renamed "Indigenous People Day"

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Vermont celebrates first official Indigenous Peoples Day

This is the third year Vermont has acknowledged Indigenous Peoples Day, but it's the first year since Gov. Phil Scott took Columbus Day off the calendar.
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Maine celebrates first Indigenous Peoples' Day

Maine is celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day for the first time. A state law passed earlier this year changed the day from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and there is some push back against the change. Earlier this month, Waterville Mayor Nick Isgro said October 14 would remain Columbus...
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Posting NY times articles because it has information on changes…

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Maine Is the Latest State to Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Published 2019)

At least six states and 130 cities and towns have now renamed the holiday.
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In Hawaii, the holiday is known as Discoverers’ Day, and it’s Native Americans’ Day in South Dakota. Alaska renamed it Indigenous Peoples Day in 2015, while Washington State does not recognize Columbus Day as a legal holiday.

Some other states and cities have sought other ways to address history. In February, Sandusky, Ohio, swapped the holiday for Election Day to make it easier for residents to vote.

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Opposition to Columbus Day dates back to at least the 19th century, when anti-immigrant nativists (see Know Nothings) sought to eliminate its celebration because of its association with immigrants from the Catholic countries of Ireland and Italy, and the American Catholic fraternal organization, the Knights of Columbus.[78] Some anti-Catholics, notably including the Ku Klux Klan and the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, opposed celebrations of Columbus or monuments about him because they thought that it increased Catholic influence in the United States, which was largely a Protestant country.[7
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Probably because of my family history, personal incidents, as a descendant of Irish Catholic immigrants, I am deeply offended by these constant attacks.
 
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We are now indigenous people day in Colorado foe six years at least
 
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So if you are a catholic students in any grade including college in Colorado, are you allowed to call it Columbus Day or did catholic schools change their holiday calendar to comply? Do employers still give you the holiday off?

It is still a federal holiday called Columbus day so federal workers and others get the day off.
 
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Yes fedetalemoyees get the day off banks closed post office schools closed however my to youngest grandkids in Catholic school are in today
It’s actuall called Columbus/ Indiginous Peoples Da
 
Columbus came here in 1492 He was a sailor, sailing back and forth. Catholic missionaries soon followed.

Does he get the blame for everything. If he did not have the courage to take the three ships who knows where we would be.

The Irish took a beating.
 
That has to be confusing for Catholics kids especially from Italian, or Irish descent.

Catholic schools should be teaching their own history of the great age of exploration with all the Catholic explorers who opened up the trade routes. What ever happened to Magellan, Cortes, and Vasco DeGama. They should not back down from their own history.
 
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With the progressive culture high jacking the public school curriculum it will be incumbent unpin the Catholic schools to teach the truth and the Truth on myriad levels
The whole gender fluidity nonsense is now part and parcel of the public schools here We have a homosexual “ married” governor who is progressive to the hilt so it won’t get any better for us
 
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We better keep our old catholic history books. Even in public school there were abut 20 of these explorers whose names we had to memorize.

Catholic schools caving in, in their schools by calling it both names confusing those of Irish and Italian descent. Shame.
 
Well…apparently history scholars now say Columbus never set foot in America
 
Columbus came here to exploit the new continent for economic reasons and had men butchered. Literally. During his entire administration. (read the thing I posted)

De las Casas came for the same reasons, until he saw the brutality and inhumanity of the systems Columbus set up. Whereupon he gave up his incomienda, freed his slaves, became a Dominican Friar, and spent the next 50 years fighting for just and humane treatment of the natives.

I guess we’re all allowed to choose what we want to celebrate. De las Casas seems more worthy of it to me. Especially for Catholics.
 
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What did Colombus find? He thought he set foot in West Indies.

Since I live in the Northeast, the pilgrims are a big deal and the fact that Catholics were already here and cathedrals were already being built is brushed aside.
 
Did you think that Columbus just took a leisurely trip for no reason. Of course he came for economic reasons, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand did not fund his trip because they thought there was nothing to gain.

He was courageous to even attempt to sail. The hardship he and his men endured, no one else was that stupid. He thought he was attempting to get to the West Indies directly for trade.
 
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originally posted by Peebo
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Christopher Columbus: 3 things you think he did that he didn’t​

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And things he did do that might surprise you.
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Can’t read, it’s blocked by paywall. Could you do a summary.?
 
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There are plenty of Italians who see all the renaming of the day and bashing of Columbus on Colmbus day as an assault on their culture. So since we can’t decide what to call it how about just doing away with it all together as a holiday? If Italians and other Americans still want to celebrate it they can just like Irish and other Americans celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Postal workers and other government workers get enough days off as it is. As do school and college students. Do away with it and make them go to work and classes.
 
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They will still have the day off. As Jeanne states in Colorado the workers still have the day off. The schools have changed but they still have the day off.

No this is a major insult. As an Irish family thrown into an era where there was a civil war and then outward hated by the culture for 90 years, it rings very clear to me this holiday stood to the Irish as a reminder that their heritage had value in the new lands.
 
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Rhubarb . . . .
Columbus came here to exploit the new continent for economic reasons and had men butchered.
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Sounds like the MS 13 guys.

Well at least both you and I seem to oppose the open border routine and barging into a land for financially “a better life”.

Other people are also getting into the Indiginous Day routine.

Here is Liz Warren’s take on Indiginous Day as per Breitbart News . . .

Elizabeth Warren Commemorates ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’​

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday commemorated “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” in place of Columbus Day and claimed America has a “long and painful” history of mistreating Native Americans.​

The DC Council approved of the “Indigenous Peoples’ Day Emergency Declaration Act of 2019” last week, which temporarily replaces Columbus Day with “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” in the city this year. However, it is not a permanent measure . . .

. . . “Columbus Day was officially designated as a federal holiday in 1937, despite the fact Columbus did not discover North America, despite the fact millions of people were already living in North America upon his arrival to the Americas, and despite the fact Columbus never set foot on the shores of the current United States. . . .

. . . Columbus enslaved, colonized, mutilated, and massacred thousands of Indigenous People in the Americas. . . .

Warren, who falsely claimed Native American heritage throughout her academic career, embraced the temporary replacement. . . .

. . . “We owe them our respect . . .
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Elizabeth Warren Commemorates 'Indigenous Peoples' Day'

Warren commemorated "Indigenous Peoples' Day" in place of Columbus Day and claimed America has a "long and painful" history of mistreatment.
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