Native American Day

And four, there are other options.

South Dakota replaced it with Native American Day in 1990.

Berkeley made Indigenous Peoples Day in 1992.

In 2021, President Biden became the first president to issue an Indigenous Peoples Day confirmation.

What did you call it? Um, the, the, uh, you had a name for it when you said happy fucking whatever day.

Uh, Native American Day or-

Uh, Indigenous Peoples Day

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In these places, it's more a celebration of the native and mixed cultures that survived through the colonial period.

Some places in the U.S. have also renamed the holiday as Native American Day or Indigenous Peoples' Day and changed the celebrations accordingly.

So why not just change the name if it's such a problem? Because it's tradition.

Ordinary people need their heroes and their founding myths.

Here's what John Thune actually posted.

Quote, today is Native Americans Day in South Dakota, an opportunity to celebrate the heritage and contributions of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people.

Maybe someday John Thune will give the same honor to, you know, the SAVE Act.

So do we cut a guy some slack for appealing to his own state's heritages and traditions and a segment of voters? OK.

It was, it was about trying to bring more respect to them and less discrimination towards them.

Uh, and, uh, coincidentally, you know, after the, uh, you know, that, uh, the, uh, Indian resistance, uh, uh, in Ecuador, that same year in 1990, the first state in the United States adopted Native American Day to replace Columbus Day.

That was, if you don't know already, South Dakota.

Go figure that one.

I never would've thought that.

But, uh, the state formally celebrated Native American Day as a year of reconciliation, successfully shifting the state's official focus away from Christopher Columbus.

So 1990 was the first time we had an actual state that had chi- uh, that had changed their position and they stopped celebrating Columbus Day.

And I didn't know that.

The Europeans were ahead of everybody and in the Americas, you know, everybody was ahead of the natives and the Americans.

That's, you know, that's not a slam, but I'm just, if you're going to go around picking fights with people over everything, oh, it's Native American Day and Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, which the Democrats like to say.

A couple of other things should be brought into the conversation too because, you know, these people, you know how these people are.

Just extraordinary, extraordinary things going on.