President Trump has signed a proclamation declaring Monday to be Columbus Day, in an effort to “reclaim” what he called the famed explorer’s “extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue.”

Why Trump is talking about bringing Columbus Day ‘back from the ashes’

Columbus Day is still a federal holiday — though some no longer want to celebrate the Italian explorer, and many jurisdictions also mark Indigenous Peoples Day.

The proclamation comes after Trump said in a social media post in April that, to

bring the holiday “back from the ashes,” he would reinstate “Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations, as it has had for all of the many decades before!”

In recent years, many people have instead celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day to recognize Native la

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