Why is Columbus Day still a holiday?

[Trenton]

141. Indigenous Peoples Day

As others have pointed out, there is a strong movement for re-branding the holiday "Indigenous Peoples Day". I think it is much more meaningful and appropriate to celebrate and recognize the incredible cultural wealth and diversity and the countless human lives that the world lost instead of the initial destroyer of the same.

The organization I work for funds indigenous organizations around the world as they struggle for social justice and economic self-determination. We started a petition on Change.org urging the U.N. to stand true to their own Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Around the world, the rights of indigenous peoples are still being violated, stolen and ignored. The aggressors have shifted from European "explorers" to multinational corporations and the corrupt governments that are in bed with them, but the process continues to this day.