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April 4, 2019

New Mexico Governor Signs Bill Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day
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New Mexico's governor has signed a bill abolishing Columbus Day-and
replacing it with Indigenous Peoples' Day-on the second Monday in
October. New Mexico joins Alaska, Minnesota, Vermont, Oregon, South
Dakota and Hawaii in honoring indigenous peoples with a holiday.
Meanwhile, more than 50 cities across the U.S. have also voted to stop
honoring Columbus, an Italian explorer who massacred and enslaved Arawak
indigenous people and opened the door to the European colonization of
the Americas.


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