It is still Columbus Day where I live, but I only notice holidays like this when I go to the post office to pick up my mail–and the post office is closed.
Columbus Day is October 12. Indigenous People’s Day can be whenever it wants to be. Neither are “holidays” in my usual sense of the word. Thanksgiving is a holiday.
According to my calendar and the local government buildings, Columbus Day is today.
I’m at work. I guess my kid is “celebrating” by kickin’ it at his sitter’s house all day instead of going to school. I wouldn’t be doing anything different regardless of what label you want to slap on the day.
Off today trying to clean up after a hurricane.
I ate some corn earlier, does that count?
Columbus Day is one of those “holidays” where I walk out to the mailbox at work (50 yards from the building) every half hour or so until finally someone says, “hey, kayaker, no mail today, it’s some stupid holiday”.
What you people call “maize.” I have spoken.
That’s the day that Columbus landed in the Bahamas. “Columbus Day” is the name of a holiday that commemorates that event. It happens on whatever day is designated for its recognition. “Presidents Day” likewise is the name of a holiday honoring the Presidents of the US, rather than Washington’s or Lincoln’s Birthdays.
I’m watching The Goonies.
(I don’t have Gremlins or Young Sherlock Holmes.)
By avoiding Facebook. Although I’m left of center, I can’t stand the aggressive virtue signaling by my other left of center friends. There’s a lot bigger fish to fry these days than whining about Christopher Columbus. And, Pocahontas was a Disney cartoon, not a documentary. Elevating Native American tribes to sainthood is as dumb as deifying Christopher Columbus.
I’m cleaning up the house before my surgery later this week–since I won’t be doing anything for at least a week afterwards. And I’ve been having a Tim Curry filmfest. Nothing to do with the day except that I’m at home and not working-from-home. So let’s do the Time Warp again!
I just saw a schoolbus stop at the corner down the street below my window, so it’s not like the neighborhood kids even had a holiday today regardless of the name.
This sounds like the red version of “black lives matter” to me. OK, great, “their voices are important”, but isn’t everyone’s voice “important”? Or is the citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation suggesting that indigenous peoples’ voices are more important than others? If so, why would that be the case?
WTF !! That is not what is being said by indigenous peoples ! Do you have any idea what the Columbus the terrorist did to indigenous peoples ?? Indigenous peoples are saying they’re just as important as everyone else and that we need to stop celebrating terrorists that committed crimes on Indigenous peoples that you could never imagine ! Columbus IS NOT worthily of having a damn holiday named for him any more than Hitler is !
I stayed in for Indigenous Peoples Day b/c it been raining all day . I had nothing to do with Terrorist Day and stayed away from down town , I want nothing to do with that terrorist !
By that measure, shouldn’t it be Taino-Arawak Day?
What do you mean? From the OP:
Are you saying Dr. Leo Killsback is not an indigenous person?
Scrubbing mold off the shower tile grout. Domestic bliss ensured 
Now THERE’s some celebration.
Except it’s still officially named Washington’s Birthday, despite not actually being his birthday. Moving the holiday for anniversaries to more convenient days is fairly common. If you’re going to have a Federal holiday, having it next to a weekend is the least disruptive.
And, yeah, my school isn’t off either. The school isn’t federal–it’s state run. And they don’t care about this “holiday.” On the other hand, the U.S. Mail doesn’t run.
You know how you should celebrate Columbus Day? March into your neighbour’s house and announce, “Yeah, now I live here! And all of this is mine!” 
(Here in Canada it’s Thanksgiving so there’s a turkey in the oven, and the house smells divine!)
You guys celebrate Thanksgiving on Columbus Day?
ETA: This is terrible advice. Here in America, we shoot people for shit like that.