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Christopher columbus day parade new york11/18/2023 ![]() ![]() People taking part in a rally to mark Indigenous Peoples' Day in downtown Seattle sing as they march toward Seattle City Hall, Monday, Oct. And I just I think that it's an excellent way for us to celebrate the diversity and recognize that when other indigenous people come to this country, that there's a place for them also," Haaland said of the renamed holiday. "There's 573 distinct tribes right now in our country. On October 11, she co-sponsored a national resolution to designate the second Monday in October as "Indigenous Peoples' Day." Congress and member of the Laguna Pueblo, Haaland describes her mission as one to "correct history" and honor the resilience of America's Indigenous Peoples on the national stage. One of the first two Native American women elected to U.S. Joining several states - including Minnesota, Alaska, Vermont, Oregon and South Dakota - New Mexico became the latest state to legally replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2019, celebrated for the first time on Monday. Since Berkeley's decision to rename the holiday in 1992, more than 130 cities have followed suit. 14, 2019, in Providence, R.I., after it was vandalized on the day named to honor him as one of the first Europeans to reach the New World. Red paint covers a statue of Christopher Columbus, Oct. ![]() They banished us to reservations later on when the U.S. Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-NM) told VOA. "The Europeans essentially tried to eradicate us," U.S. "There were Native Americans that were here before, but basically discovered the New World, and that's why we're here today," said Joe Sanfilippo, a participant at the New York Columbus Day Parade. It's a sentiment and a suggestion that has long divided Americans: honor tradition, or correct history and rectify the past. Let's forget about all the other controversy." " any of those people in those days, we have to remember the good that they did," Verrelli said. If it weren't for Columbus, who knows where we'd be today," said Aldo Verrelli, Parade Chairman with the Columbus Citizens Foundation. Yet to organizers of the 75th annual Columbus Day Parade, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus remains worth celebrating. The resolution, presented in Geneva at the United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, paved the way for cities like Berkeley, California to officially replace the holiday 15 years later. ![]()
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