Oct 15, 2016
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As the nation celebrates the federal Columbus Day holiday on October 10 (the traditional observance was for many years on October 12, the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492) a small but persistent movement to replace the holiday with alternative holidays such as "Indigenous People's Day" continues to pop up across America.
The latest notable example of this trend to eliminate the Columbus Day holiday was on October 6, when Vermont Governor Peter Schumlin signed an executive proclamation marking the second Monday of October as Indigenous People's Day.
Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/