Groups are continuing the push to change the name of the second Monday in October from Columbus Day to National Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Columbus’ legacy has diminished recently as more about his past has come under scrutiny.
“Warfare, enslavement, and forced relocation disrupted and altered the lives of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas,” the National Museum of the American Indian said. “Celebrating Columbus and other explorers like him dismisses the devastating losses experienced by Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere in the past and the ongoing effects of colonialism today.
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