Indigenous Peoples Day Columbus Day 2024

Indigenous Peoples Day Columbus Day 2024. However, the day is more widely becoming known as indigenous. Now a federal holiday, the second monday of october has been celebrated as columbus day since 1971.

The day is often marked by protests against memorials to columbus, for environmental justice, for the return of indigenous lands and in honor of missing and murdered indigenous women. Indigenous peoples’ day is a day to recognize indigenous people and the contributions they’ve made to history, as well as to mourn those lost to genocide and western colonization—and to.