Columbus Day Is Out, Indigenous Peoples Day Is In

Jan 24, 2018 1185

BY: Ida Mojadad

San Francisco joined a nationwide movement to honor Native Americans in lieu of the explorer whose arrival brought on many of their deaths. The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 on Tuesday afternoon to bump out Columbus Day on the second Monday of October and edge in Indigenous Peoples Day, the San Franciso Examiner reports. It took after the San Francisco Unified School District — which renamed the holiday one year ago— in applying the new name to all official city documents and calendars. 

Berkeley was the first city in the country to take the leap in 1992 and a growing number of schools, cities, and universities have followed suit. Disease and conflict claimed millions of Native American lives after Christopher Columbus set foot in North America, according to the History Channel.

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SOURCE: http://www.sfweekly.com/

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