The Debate Over Columbus Day Parts of Speech

Columbus Day is celebrated every year on the second Monday in October.

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Indigenous peoples had lived there for thousands of years.

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Hawaii renamed it "Discoverers’ Day" in 1971 to honor its Polynesian founders.

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He was also not the first European to reach North America.

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Some states never celebrated Columbus Day, and some schools and universities also stopped observing the holiday.

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Berkeley, CA, was the first city to make the change in 1992.

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