by Anita Chabria

After backlash from local Italian Americans, the Sacramento City Council this week shelved a plan to make Christopher Columbus share his October holiday with indigenous people. Councilman Eric Guerra, who introduced the resolution last week, on Tuesday removed the provision creating an Indigenous People's Day that fell on Columbus Day. Instead, he asked city staff to find calendar dates for separate days honoring Native Americans and Italian Americans.

As part of the same resolution, the City Council backed protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline who say the oil project poses environmental dangers to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. The Columbus Day compromise was hammered out last week between local representatives of the Native American and Italian American communities.

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Source: http://www.sacbee.com/