Los Angeles celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day before Columbus Day

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00:00In East Overseas, Columbus Day is a federal holiday in the United States

00:04celebrated on the second Monday of October. In 2019, the progressive state of

00:09California opted to officially celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in place of the

00:14century-old tradition of commemorating Christopher Columbus on his day.

00:19The U.S. Genia Duloc paid a visit to the Getty Museum where a couple thousand

00:24people gathered to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day ahead of Columbus Day.

00:31Andrea Jimenez, founder of Herb Club LA, leads a garden tour at the Getty Museum in Los

00:38Angeles during a festival celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. She shows the

00:43visitors native plants to California. For example, yarrow, a flowering plant that is

00:50known for its medicinal properties. Native peoples would use it for healing

00:56wounds, for healing indigestion, for healing, you know, all sorts of things and

01:02it has been known as one of those plants that is called a panacea. The third

01:07annual celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day at the Getty Museum drew about 2,000

01:13people, making the event one of the biggest in Los Angeles, says festival

01:18founder Chelsea Anderson. The mission of the family festival is to share

01:24resources of artists and makers from Indigenous diaspora in Los Angeles. We

01:28love the educational component of sharing traditions of the past, but also

01:33we really celebrate contemporary voices and contemporary artists. One of the

01:37artists, Shigo Beliletso, a dancer with the Wild Horse Native American

01:43Association, says Indigenous Peoples Day brings recognition to his people who

01:48lived on the land before Europeans came. I remember growing up, a lot of my, some

01:55teachers, they didn't even know we exist. Some people think we're extinct and

02:00we're not. We're here, we're alive, we're well and we're thriving and we're passing

02:05this to our next generation, our singing, our dancing, our tradition. The state of

02:11California does not observe Columbus Day, having replaced it with Indigenous

02:16Peoples Day in 2019. Solange Aguilar, a Native American poet, says growing up it

02:22was a struggle celebrating Christopher Columbus Day. There's a story about him

02:27that he discovered America, but you can't really discover something when there are

02:31already people there. It's important to learn that history and understand that

02:34he was a really bad guy, he was awful, and those, the history of him, that mythos or

02:39whatever, is a real thing, it's a real trauma that we carry. Erica Baranwal, who

02:44moved last month to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio, is celebrating Indigenous

02:50Peoples Day with her family for the first time. She believes recognizing

02:55Native peoples will make a better future for her mixed-race kids. That's important

03:01to us, for our kids to be able to grow up without people making so many assumptions

03:05about them based on the color of their hair, the color of their skin, their last name.

03:11Columbus Day is currently a federal holiday in the U.S., unlike Indigenous

03:16Peoples Day, whose status varies state by state. On Monday, New York City is

03:21holding one of the biggest Columbus Day parades in the country, celebrating

03:26Italian-American heritage, culture, and achievements.

03:30Janette Dulo, VOA News, Los Angeles.

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