October 12th, 1492 is the day that Christopher Columbus hit land in the Americas. However, he did not discover anything. There were millions of inhabitants living in the Americas, and they had been inhabiting the continent for thousands of years.
Columbus committed atrocities against humanity towards the Indigenous people and set the stage for the genocide of 100 million Indigenous people all throughout North, South and Central America.
Columbus Day was made a federal holiday in 1934, and it is time to do away with this backwards holiday. While Native Americans were against the celebration of Columbus in 1934, we had no voice to oppose this holiday.
We are asking the US Government to revoke the federal celebration of this holiday, and instead to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day.