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The second Monday of October marks Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day in the United States. In 2022, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Indigenous Peoples Day, but Columbus Day is ...

Others see him as a progenitor of colonialism, enslavement, and genocide. So the day that honors him, the second Monday of October, is unusually polarizing among federal holidays. Just 16 states ...

Columbus Day, also called Indigenous Peoples Day, may be a federal holiday, but it's also one of the nation's most inconsistently celebrated days, according to Pew Research. Even though the event ...

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