Los Angeles celebrates Indigenous’ Peoples Day before Columbus Day | VOA News

Since 2019 the state of California officially celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of the federally recognized Columbus Day, which falls on every second Monday in October. VOA’s Genia Dulot visited the celebration at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, that drew around 2,000 people.

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[indigenouspodcast]

Nicely put. Indigenous people definitely aren’t extinct. Happy Indigenous People’s day

[Alex_ThunderBird]

The real reason why we celebrate Columbus Day was not because of the discovery of the “new world” it was because of the lynchings of southern Italians.

[Alas-xjcr]

Columbus brought diversity to the new world. Diversity is our strength.

[SombreroBeanieHat]

They should have a Month instead of a day.

[magpie-yfgf]

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, you guys deserve your land back.

[yoliemartinez]

The herb it’s called
PAN SE NIA. AHO’ Either or HAPPY INDIGENOUS DAY!

[facitenonvictimarum]

Most wouldn't pass a DNA test for indigenous-ness

[SparkleInYourEyes]

There's no such thing as indigenous people. We all came from somewhere else.

[yoaaauuiohheee]

Columbus was an amazing man. Show some respect. Who discovered America? Columbus. That part.

[jaymudd]

He wasn't stopped by Shark nor Whale, then made the Natives run like Hell!

[polarbear]

Indigenous means "naturally occurring in a place or region . " Red Indians crossed the Bering land bridge . Therefore Red Indians are NOT indigenous, THEY ARE ASIAN .

[giuffre]

Strange to celebrate the day your downfall started. 😢

[nothanks]

Why I will never vote for anyone from cali

[SeattlePioneer]

Human Beings all of us, are indigenous to Africa, not the Americas.

All of us in the Americas are migrants to the Americas.

Thus, "Indigenous Peoples Day" is a bogus, unscientific political effort to pander to early migrants for political reasons.

Columbus Day celebrates one of the seminal events in world history, the beginning of the Columbian Exchange in which new human migration and biological migration between the European-Asian continent and the Americas exploded upon the world. The whole world has been impacted by the Columbian exchange.

Attempts to assign privilege, prestige and power depending on when people migrated to the Americas is nonsense. Everyone in the Americas have opportunities to benefit from the results of the Columbian Exchange, and everyone is responsible for how effectively they exploit those opportunities.

[HatersGnHate]

Whoa I thought these people went extinct centuries ago! Fascinating to see - like visiting a zoo