Posting date: 2017-10-07 | ||
US City Replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day |
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Portland became the latest municipality in Maine to recognize indigenous people instead of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who arrived in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. | While one resident at Monday’s meeting called Christopher Columbus “a murderer,†another said that eliminating the Columbus Day holiday in Portland “is like a slap in the face to the Italians who reside here.†| |
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