City of Buffalo Change Columbus Day to Indigenous People's/Heritage Day Petition & Support

This only started Feb. 16, 2016! How amazing!

 

This petition is for abolition of Christopher Columbus Day, the 2nd Monday in October, an outdated and historically incorrect celebration, in favor of Indigenous [Heritage] Day.

Buffalo News 

Buffalo Rising 

Seneca Nation Media & Communications Center

Mogul 

Remember Native Americans.Org 

Native Americans and First Culture Nations 

Indigenous Environmental Network 

Native American American Cultural Center of Rochester & Syracuse


John Kane 

Medium 

Sacred Ecology Films

Time Warner 

National Native AmericanIndian Heritage Month

Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, Inc.

WGRZ NBC 

Seneca Nation of Indians Tourism 

Sun Times

As far as "America" is concerned, this land was founded by the Indigenous that first inhabited it. 

We cannot alter the past nor wish to, however, we can change the present and the future.  

This petition is for abolition of Christopher Columbus Day, the 2nd Monday in October, an outdated and historically incorrect celebration, in favor of Indigenous [Heritage] Day.

"Past the elementary and high schools, there are only occasional hints of something else. Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard historian, was the most distinguished writer on Columbus, the author of a multi-volume biography, and was himself a sailor who retraced Columbus's route across the Atlantic. In his popular book Christopher Columbus, Mariner, written in 1954, he tells about the enslavement and the killing:  The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."- from Howard Zinn

Support in 2 weeks: 

Buffalo News, Buffalo Rising, Mogul, Remember Native Americans. Org, Native American and First Nations Cultures, Medium, Indigenous Environmental Network. Org, Time Warner, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, Native American Cultural Center of Rochester & Syracuse, National Native American Indian Heritage Month, Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties Inc., Sacred Ecology Films, Seneca Nation Media & Communications Center, Sacred Ecology, Seneca Nation of Indians Tourism, WGRZ NBC CH 2, John Kane.