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Thread #173597   Message #4209794
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
14-Oct-24 - 11:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Indigenous Peoples Day
Subject: RE: BS: Indigenous Peoples Day
Not going to the bank or the post office today.

Yesterday I heard an article (NPR) about the background of Columbus Day as a holiday in the early 1900s and the pushback that began in earnest in the 1960s.

Here's a story about the recent holiday designation (with a clever title "Goodbye, Columbus? Here's what Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans").