That year, Minneapolis, MN, Grand Rapids, MN, and Seattle, WA, renamed the holiday. But the idea really began to gain momentum after 2014. The resolution passed with an overwhelming majority.īerkeley, CA, was the first US city to make the change in 1992, and Santa Cruz, CA, followed shortly after in 1994. In 1977, a delegation of Native nations - attending the International NGO Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas - proposed renaming Columbus Day to "Indigenous Peoples' Day." They believed the change would help honor the victims of American colonization. The shift in sentiment was encouraging, but many people were still unhappy about Columbus Day being a federal holiday. or Native American Day ,as of 2020 (Credit: Kaldari/CC0/ Wikimedia Commons) The US states (in green ) that celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day. As public awareness of the controversy increased, many US schools and universities also stopped observing the holiday.
Hawaii renamed it "Discoverers' Day" - in honor of the state's Polynesian founders - in 1971, while South Dakota changed it to "Native American Day" in 1990. Some US states, including Oregon, Iowa, and Nebraska, have never recognized Columbus Day. That honor belongs to a group of Vikings, led by Leif Eriksson, who established a settlement in Greenland in AD 980. He was also not the first European to set foot in North America. The indigenous people had been living in the Americas long before his arrival. Historians also argue that Christopher Columbus was not the first to find the continent. However, the US federal holiday, which will be celebrated on October 11 this year, has always been controversial due to the European settlers' cruel treatment of the Native American people. The second Monday in October has traditionally been known as Columbus Day in honor of the Italian explorer's "discovery" of the Americas on October 12, 1492. Columbus Day celebrates Christopher Columbus's arrival to the Americas (Credit: Uk.)
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