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August 31, 2017

Los Angeles to Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
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The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to eliminate Columbus Day
from the city's calendar and replace it with an annual holiday marking
Indigenous Peoples Day, in an acknowledgement of the genocide that took
place as European powers colonized the Americas. Wednesday's 14-1 vote
makes the second Monday of each October a day to commemorate
"indigenous, aboriginal and native people." Columbus has long faced
criticism for massacring and enslaving Arawak indigenous people, and for
opening the door to the European colonization of the Americas.


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