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Washington Terrace council votes 3–1 to combine Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day on October calendar
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The council voted 3–1 on Jan. 20, 2026, to place a combined Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day on the city’s October calendar after debate over whether to replace or jointly recognize the observance.
WASHINGTON TERRACE — The Washington Terrace City Council voted 3–1 on Tuesday to place a combined Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day observance on the city’s October calendar.
Councilmember Zee introduced the item and urged the council to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of celebrating Christopher Columbus, calling Columbus’s legacy “a genocide almanac” and asserting that Columbus “actually never came to America.” Zee said many states and thousands of cities already…
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