Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s Day 2025
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Indigenous Peoples' Day falls on the second Monday of October, the same date as Columbus Day. It honors the United States' indigenous people, and has been adopted in lieu of Columbus Day in several states and cities around the nation, according to the Pew Research Center.
Trump portrayed his action as restoring the luster to a holiday that has become controversial in recent years as critics reassess Columbus’ mixed historical legacy.
New Yorkers were up in arms after the annual Columbus Day Parade was cancelled because of the nor’easter blowing through the city, the first time in its nearly 100-year history it was scrapped due to weather. “They f’n cancelled Columbus Day Parade in NYC because of rain,” one irate person, Jack W, wrote on X.
As Trump calls for honoring Columbus Day, the city of Columbus celebrates a different holiday and ponders whether to bring back namesake's statue.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Protests over the summer saw different Christopher Columbus statues in the city taken down and now, because of the pandemic, the annual Chicago parade will not take place. However, many Italian Americans in Chicago still want the day to be ...
On Monday, the Mother Cabrini Shrine will hold a Cabrini Day Mass at noon. Colorado ultimately ended up with Cabrini Day because Christopher Columbus “had no knowledge of or contact with the area now known as the state of Colorado, providing no rationale for a Colorado state holiday in his name,” according to the bill text.
The statue joins other New Haven artifacts at the new Lost in New Haven Museum, which tells the story of the city.
President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.