Indigenous People's Day

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Today, in the United States, is commonly known Columbus Day holiday.
To be certain of the meaning, looked up the word indigenous and found...

indigenous, adjective, produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment

The coincidence of the day seems to be no accident, so with barely any effort at all found, at Wikipedia, that this coincidence was intentional.

The holiday began in 1989 in South Dakota, where Lynn Hart and Governor Mickelson backed a resolution to celebrate Native American day on the second Monday of October, marking the beginning of the year of reconciliation in 1990^. It was instituted in Berkley, California, in 1992, coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. It spread two years later to Santa Cruz, California, and in the 2010s to various other cities and states.

This was a plot line in a Soprano's episode.

This describes, in a crude way, a feeling that many feel strongly about. On one side the Italians are proud of Christopher Columbus. On another side, there are Indians with an hatchet to grind. On the sideline are liberals who do anything that destabilizes the status quo.
I think its all an amusing pile of crap.