Los Angeles Replaces Columbus Day With Holiday Celebrating Indigenous People

The city of Los Angeles will no longer mark Columbus Day on the second Monday of October.

Following a near-unanimous vote by the City Council on Wednesday, Angelenos will instead celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 9.

The council voted 14-1 to replace the controversial holiday at a hearing attended by many Native American activists, as well as Italian-American residents seeking to conserve Columbus Day. Councilor Mitch OFarrell, who introduced the motion , said the councils decision would help to right a historical wrong of epic proportions .

The historical record is unambiguous in terms of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus himself, and his men, enacted on Latino native peoples, OFarrell said at an earlier City Hall meeting, according to CBS Los Angeles.

With the vote, Indigenous Peoples Day has replaced Columbus Day as one of 12 paid holidays for city workers in Los Angeles.

Oct. 12, the arrival date of Genoa-born Columbus in the New World, in 1492 under the auspices of the monarchs of Spain, has been designated as Italian American Heritage Day. The occasion is to recognize the contributions of Italian Americans to the history and culture of Los Angeles, however, it will not be a paid holiday.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Wednesdays hearing was a fractious one with clashes between the Italian-American contingent, who lamented the motion as an affront to their heritage, and the Native American activists, who described Columbus Day as a state-sponsored celebration of genocide of indigenous peoples.

This is a pretty intense day at City Hall: Lots of heated arguments in the hall as people face off over renaming Columbus Day.

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This is a pretty intense day at City Hall: Lots of heated arguments in the hall as people face off over renaming Columbus Day.
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Prayer and ceremony held inside city hall in support of council recognizing #IndigenousPeoplesDay in lieu of #ColumbusDay . @KABCRadio pic.twitter.com/q02ZTfHtZO
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Los Angeles is not the first major American city to choose to replace Columbus Day which is still a federal holiday with a day recognizing indigenous communities. Seattle , Phoenix and Denver , among others, have made the switch. States including South Dakota and Vermont have enacted similar changes.

Los Angeles votes to replace Columbus Day as a holiday

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Los Angeles votes to replace Columbus Day as a holiday