Pen-Elayne on the Web

Columbus Day Commemmoration

Holiday? Not from where I sit, although it's quiet enough here at the office to allow me to catch up on blog reading. In Washington, at the National Museum of the American Indian people are reflecting on how, "despite some of the things that were put into motion with Columbus reaching the Americas, native people still persevered." And United Native America has an interesting petition drive to make the second day Monday in October a federal holiday honoring Native Americans, and relegate Columbus Day "back to its original day the second Wednesday of October and not be a tax paid holiday as is St. Patrick's Day and Octoberfest," other holidays honoring ethnic groups that have resettled in this country over the centuries.