A bill that would move the celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day to the same date as Columbus Day was presented at the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday, adding to a slate of bills related to the state’s ...

Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World should be celebrated, not replaced. On Tuesday, Assemblywoman Shea Backus, D-Las Vegas, presented on Assembly Bill 144. It would establish the second ...

Nevada law says Indigenous Peoples Day falls on Aug. 9, but a lawmaker is trying to change that with AB144, which would set the observation on the second Monday in October — the same day as ...

Are banks closed on Columbus Day, or Indigenous Peoples' Day, in 2024? That's a question plenty of folks are asking just ahead of the holiday that marks the voyage and landing of Italian explorer ...

Where past discussions on similar legislation focused on Native American history and culture and the atrocities Christopher ...

several states have replaced the holiday with Indigenous People's Day to honor the original inhabitants of these lands. Columbus also continued to believe that he had found a route to Asia ...

Advocates have long pushed to replace Columbus Day across the country with Indigenous Peoples Day to denounce Christopher Columbus’ treatment of Native Americans, who for millennia lived in the ...

Montana state Sen. Shane Morigeau, an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, has introduced a bill to designate Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a legal holiday in the ...

While 17 states and dozens of cities recognize Indigenous Peoples Day, Montana — home to 12 tribes and seven reservations — is not among them.

No American holiday is under siege as persistently as Columbus Day ... said that the shift toward recognizing Indigenous People’s Day was done to place ‘a spotlight on the history, cultures ...