Lessons, arts and crafts ideas, and video just up ahead.ĭay - From the Holiday Zone which offers fun arts and crafts New ways to celebrate Columbus Day with more stories and history More about Columbus Day & Indigenous Peoples' around the Web:Īround the Web, discover more about traditional and The counter-celebration honors the rich history and culture of the nation's first inhabitants who generously helped early colonists to survive and eventually celebrate the nation's first Thanksgiving with them. Today, in lieu of Columbus Day, individual states, cities and towns across the nation have begun to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. Meanwhile, Native Americans regard Columbus Day (only declared a federal holiday in 1937) as a teaching moment to remind the nation of its entire past: Could Columbus have truly "discovered" America when Native Americans had already been living there for countless generations?
Those who still honor the day see Christopher Columbus as an epic figure who helped forge an important trade route from the Old World to the New World, which eventually led to the American ideals of liberty. Indigenous Peoples' Day celebrations takeĪ culture clash continues to grown between those who recognize the contributions of Native Americans and those who celebrate Columbus Day. School closings are made at the local level, and often East Coast schools will be given the day off while others remain open throughout the rest of the nation. Libraries are also usually closed for the day. One in NYC is by far the largest, grandest and most popular, welcoming over 1 million spectators annually.Īnother big celebration happens on the West Coast, when Columbus Day is observed during San Francisco Fleet Week - with the good reason to celebrate the three famous ships that brought Columbus and his crew to America in 1492.ĭespite it being a normal workday for many Americans, Columbus Day is an official federal government holiday, Post offices and banks close in honor of Today, among modern celebrations that mark the discovery of America, a big one for consumers is the annual Columbus Day sale offering summer clearances on garden equipment and air conditioners! And, of course, there are the parades, The The confusion, the discovery changed the course of history. The problem was that he thought he had arrived in India and mistakenly called the natives Indians (now known as, um, Native Americans.) The report said estimates showed the 15th century or "pre-Columbus" population of North America at around 10 to 12 million and by the 1890s, it was reduced to around 300,000.This year, Columbus Day will be celebrated on Monday, October 10, 2022.Ĭolumbus who "in 1492 sailed the ocean blue" on an epic journey half way around the globe - only to bump into what we now call America. Some peoples have disappeared, or nearly so," in a report ahead of the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. The indigenous peoples were pushed aside and marginalized by the dominant descendents of Europeans. Zotigh (a cultural specialist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian) and Renée Gokey (a teacher services coordinator at the museum) explained.īack in 2001, the U.N, noted: "In the New World, white European colonizers arrived and settled suddenly, with drastic results. Generations of Native Americans have protested Columbus Day, calling for its renaming because "the colonial takeovers of the Americas, starting with Columbus, led to the deaths of millions of Native people and the forced assimilation of survivors," a joint blog post by Dennis W. Why Was the Name of Columbus Day Changed? The day is observed either in place of or in addition to Columbus Day in some parts of the country. Indigenous Peoples' Day celebrates the history and culture of Native people in the U.S., recognizing them as the first inhabitants of the Americas before Columbus arrived on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. However, recent years have seen some states rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day to honor Native Americans who predate Columbus in the New World. Read more Boston Latest City to Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples' Day
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