How do Native Americans make peace with a national holiday that romanticizes the 1621 encounter between their ancestors and English settlers, and erases the deadly conflicts that followed?
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Wellesley voters back referendum question renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoplesâ Day
By John Hilliard Globe Staff,Updated March 3, 2021, 3:24 p.m.
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The statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston s North End was vandalized by someone who knocked the head off the memorial last year.Lane Turner/Globe Staff
Wellesley voters on March 2 backed a referendum ballot question that called for replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoplesâ Day, a holiday intended to recognize the âhumanity, culture and historyâ of the nationâs native inhabitants.
The nonbinding question appeared on the ballot for the townâs municipal election, which included candidates for local office.
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