By a majority vote, Amherst Town Meeting on Wednesday night adopted a resolution to commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day.

Students in Matthew Venditti's eighth grade class brought the resolution after studying Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer who set the stage for European colonization of the Americas with four trips across the Atlantic Ocean under the Spanish flag in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

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