Question

Explain at least two reasons why some people want to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.​

Answer 1

1. To celebrate the perseverance and power that Native communities continue to have in the world.

2. They were the original inhabitants of America, who have unfortunately endured a rather violent history, especially by the Europeans Columbus Day celebrates.

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Answer 2

• To emphasize on the losses suffered by the Native American peoples and their cultures through diseases, warfare, massacres, and forced assimilation.
• Reflect on who was in America first, before the Europeans arrived, and respect the land the natives lived on.

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