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2 days ago · Good-bye, Columbus. Latin America’s ambivalence toward holidays to commemorate the colonizers has taken a turn since 1992. The 500-year anniversary of Columbus’ arrival corresponded with yet another form of colonialism, in many Latin Americans’ eyes, as a new wave of multinational corporations colluded with heads of state to tap the ...
4 days ago · Indigenous Peoples’ Day arose as a response to Columbus Day, a holiday that commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492. Historically, that holiday has celebrated the explorer for opening the New World to European settlement.
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- Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday in the United States that honors the Indigenous peoples of the United States—American Indians, Native Alaskans...
- Columbus Day is a holiday in the United States that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492, in the New World. It occu...
- In the United States, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October—the same day on which Columbus Day is traditionally cel...
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day was created as an alternative holiday to Columbus Day for those who object to what they believe is an insensitive celebrati...
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day can be observed by centring on Native populations’ voices and celebrating their rich achievements. The holiday has also bee...
4 days ago · Goodbye Columbus, hello Indigenous Peoples Day. Saturday is Oct. 12, the traditional day Columbus Day was celebrated. It was later changed to the second Monday in October to give workers a...
3 days ago · Goodbye, Columbus. This is from a long time ago, but not quite long enough ago if you follow my drift. At the time I called it: History. Personal as well as Misremembered. I returned to the Land of the Round Doorknobs, thirty-three years ago today.
4 days ago · … violence against Indigenous communities. Native Americans have long criticized the … National Museum of the American Indian. There are no … Columbia have holidays honoring Native Americans.
3 days ago · Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; 1904 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American ...
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5 days ago · A movement recast the second Monday in October as a day to appreciate the history of Indigenous communities. That visibility, say Native Americans, can help us see what else needs to change.
