Salem residents will have a pair of holidays to recognize on the second Monday in October after a resolution to name the day Indigenous Peoples' Day in the city narrowly passed the Salem City Council Thursday night. While all City Councilors who spoke were in favor of adding to Indigenous Peoples' Day to the Salem calendar at some point in the year, councilors were split on whether it should be on the same day as Columbus Day.

Two motions to send it back to committee for further discussion, and to entertain alternative dates, failed 6-5. The vote to pass the resolution then passed by the same 6-5 margin. As a federal holiday, Columbus Day will still be observed as well.