A resolution that would recognize the second Monday in October as both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day in the City of Edmonds will be considered by the Edmonds City Council at this Tuesday night’s, Sept. 19 business meeting. The resolution was originally proposed and approved unanimously during the Sept. 6 Edmonds Diversity Commission meeting, and was reviewed by the council’s Personnel and Public Safety Committee last week.

“In addition to the traditional recognition of Columbus’s arrival in the Americas and the European colonization of this country, this accompanying recognition of Indigenous Peoples allows for a more balanced representation of our region’s cultural history and constitutes a small act of restitution for the hardships endured by Indigenous Peoples since the onset of European colonization of the Americas,” said the summary accompanying the council agenda item.