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But a growing number of cities, states and universities are abandoning ship and replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, also known as Native Americans Day. On Thursday, Washington, D.C., voted to temporarily change the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.
Similarly one may ask, is Columbus Day still called Columbus Day?
Two years later, Berkeley, California, became the first city to officially jettison the Columbus Day name; the new moniker was Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Hereof, is Columbus Day officially Indigenous Peoples Day?
Indigenous Peoples' Day is a holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. It began as a counter-celebration held on the same day as the U.S. federal holiday of Columbus Day, which honors Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.
And Columbus Day, celebrated the second Monday in October, remains a federal holiday. Since the 1970s, critics have charged Columbus' brutality toward native peoples in the New World — including slavery and forced conversion to Catholicism — made a holiday in his honor inappropriate at best.