{"id":380209,"date":"2018-10-08T23:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T22:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/changing-the-name-is-just-the-first-step\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T23:53:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T22:53:35","slug":"changing-the-name-is-just-the-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/changing-the-name-is-just-the-first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Name Is Just the First Step"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Wednesday, October 3, the Cincinnati city council joined a growing trend when it voted to change<\/a> Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day. It is now one of more than 70 cities across the country to do so. The first was Berkeley, California, which adopted Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day in 1992,<\/span> in recognition of the 500\u2013<\/span>year anniversary of the European arrival in the Western Hemisphere and the ensuing devastation to Indigenous nations already here in what became known as the Americas.<\/p>\n

Other cities that have made the change include Los Angeles, Seattle and Phoenix, as well as states like Minnesota, South Dakota and Alaska, which have significant Native American and Alaskan Native populations. In 2017, the island country of Trinidad and Tobago made the change after a statue of Columbus was splattered in blood-colored paint. A grassroots group called the Cross Rhodes Freedom Project posted an explanation for the vandalism on Facebook at the time, explaining<\/a> that the painting was soaked in red to protest the celebration of the \u201cGenocidal Genovese Sailor\u201d who \u201cdecimated the first peoples of the Americas, destroyed their way of life, then turned around and denied their humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are rumors of more cities, including Dallas, Texas, following suit by today. More than 90 different entities (including cities, counties, colleges, universities, states and one country) have changed from honoring Columbus to honoring Indigenous people \u2014 at least in name \u2014 since 1990.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think history tells us that Christopher Columbus was not a good representation of the kind of people we\u2019d want to value and appreciate,\u201d said Chris Seelbach, a Cincinnati councilman, when explaining his vote. He also tweeted<\/a>, \u201cWe can\u2019t re-write history, but we can acknowledge the millions of people who didn\u2019t need to be \u2018discovered.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, October 3, the Cincinnati city council joined a growing trend when it voted to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day. It is now one of more than 70 cities across the country to do so. The first was Berkeley, California, which adopted Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day in 1992, in recognition of the 500\u2013year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}