Indigenous Peoples Day

The American holiday known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes, celebrates, and remembers the history and customs of the indigenous American peoples. On the second Monday in October, it is observed nationwide and in certain areas is a recognized city or state holiday.

It started as a celebration staged in opposition to Columbus Day, a federal holiday in the United States that honors the Italian explorer. His supporters argue that he is a symbol of “the violent history of the colonization in the Western Hemisphere” and refuse to celebrate him.

In 1992, Berkeley, California, established Indigenous Peoples Day to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Americas on October 12, 1492.

*For more latest news and information visit us https://freshnewsofusa.com/

Histroy of Indigenous Peoples Day

In 1977, the International Conference on Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, sponsored by the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, began discussing replacing Columbus Day in the Americas with a celebration known as Indigenous Peoples Day.

Similarly, Native American groups staged a kind of protest in Boston instead of Thanksgiving, which is celebrated there as a sign of cooperation between Massachusetts colonists and Native Americans in the early years.

In July 1990, at the First Continental Conference on 500 Years of Indian Resistance in Quito, Ecuador, representatives of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas agreed to celebrate 1992, the 500th anniversary of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus, as a year to promote “continental unity” and “liberation”. .

After the conference, participants from Northern California organized protests against the “Quincentennial Jubilee” organized by the United States Congress for the San Francisco Bay Area on Columbus Day 1992.

It was to include replicas of Columbus’ ships sailing. under the Golden Gate Bridge and repeat their “discovery” of America. The delegates formed the Bay Area Indian Alliance and subsequently the “Resistance 500” task force.

It promoted the idea that Columbus’s “discovery” of inhabited lands and their subsequent European colonization resulted in the genocide of thousands of indigenous peoples because of decisions made by colonial and national governments.

Rest Info you can read from here click link of wikipedia.