WASHINGTON (AP) - Joe Biden is the 46th president, but he’s the first one in the country’s 245-year history to issue a proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.The proclamation, marking Monday, Oct.
11 as Indigenous Peoples Day, intentionally coincides with Columbus Day. It does not raise Indigenous People’s Day to federal holiday status, but it does continue the trend of reevaluating historical figures whose legacies have fallen out of favor.Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who sailed to the Americas under Spain in 1492.
He’s often credited with discovering the Americas, though he never stepped foot on the North American continent.Instead, he enslaved native populations in Caribbean islands, stole natural resources, ruled.