Columbus Day will be observed Monday. While many people still honor the memory of Columbus coming to America and use it to ...

While not everywhere in the U.S. recognizes Indigenous Peoples' Day, advocates say it's important to denounce Columbus’ ...

The United Nations declared Aug. 9 as the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples in 1994, and, rather than give Columbus any more credit, dozens of states and cities across the ...

several states have replaced the holiday with Indigenous People's Day to honor the original inhabitants of these lands. Columbus also continued to believe that he had found a route to Asia ...

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, we're taking a closer look at the ... to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples.

A bill that would move the celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day to the same date as Columbus Day was presented at the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday, adding to a slate of bills related to the ...

San Francisco joined dozens of other cities on Tuesday in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day, a move hailed by some as long overdue but denounced by others as cruel and divisive. SAN ...

Advocates have long pushed to replace Columbus Day across the country with Indigenous Peoples Day to denounce Christopher Columbus’ treatment of Native Americans, who for millennia lived in the ...

Montana’s House State Administration Committee heard Senate Bill 224 Tuesday. The bill aims to create a Montana Indigenous Peoples Day legal holiday on the same ...

Today, a growing number of U.S. cities and states celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in lieu of Columbus Day. Most banks will be closed on Columbus Day, as it’s one of the federal holidays ...

Morigieau introduced Senate Bill 224 to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the second Monday of October as a legal holiday in Montana, in addition to recognizing Columbus Day the same day.