Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples Day Essay

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Los Angeles City Council has voted on this holiday to replace it to celebrate everyone, the L.A Council has officially turned Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. This has been proposed in 2015 by Councilmen Mitch O’Farrel who said that Columbus used extreme violence, enslavement and brutality. People think of Christopher Columbus as a hero since he discovered the Americas when really he enslaved/killing people and even supervised the selling of young Native American girls into sexual slavery. Italian- Americans pleaded not to get rid of this holiday since Columbus was born in Genoa, on that day they celebrate their Italian heritage but with the holiday now gone they will celebrate it during Indigenous Peoples Day. New Orleans Mayor Mitch …show more content…
2nd Ward Alderman Ducson Nguyen has said that this is symbolic and is meant to inspire people to celebrate the people who were here long before Columbus had made the journey over from Spain. Tompkins County is another place that has replaced this day with Indigenous Peoples Day; Tompkins County is located to the lands which belonged to the Iroquois and Cayuga Nation. In New York, some Italians are not very happy about this; Governor Cuomo, Timothy Cardinal Dolan and Mayor de Blasio were with the many of Italian- Americans who were marching on the 1492 expedition. This whole decision has caused an uproar in many places and even people who think it should stay Columbus Day when others think not due to all the horrid things he had done while alive. Native Americans are coming out and telling that they do not hate the Italian- American community but they have been trying for a long time to get recognized and finally they are. Back in 2015, even students at Syracuse University seek to change this day and in 2016 a University Community honor Indigenous Peoples Day. For a very long time people have been trying to get rid of this holiday, even local people are trying to change this and now it’s happening; and it's a pretty big moment for everyone no matter who you
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