Los Angeles city and county offices will be closed Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day while federal offices will be closed for Columbus Day, which remains a federal holiday.<\/p>\n
Indigenous Peoples Day is not a state holiday, so state courts and other state offices will be open. A bill approved by the Legislature in 1998 and signed into law by then-Gov. Pete Wilson designated the fourth Friday in September as Native American Day, a state holiday when state courts and other state offices are closed.<\/p>\n
Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will also be open. Buses, rail services and Metrolink trains in Los Angeles run on a regular schedule.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Postal Service does not deliver regular mail on Columbus Day, and post offices will be closed as will most major banks.<\/p>\n
A 2017 ordinance declared the second Monday in October in Los Angeles as Indigenous Peoples Day, replacing Columbus Day as a holiday on the city calendar.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors also voted in 2017 to declare the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day, replacing Columbus Day as a holiday on the county calendar.<\/p>\n
More than 100 cities around the nation have opted to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day over Columbus Day.<\/p>\n
A multicultural Indigenous Peoples Day celebration highlighting Indigenous identity, art, dance and history will be held from noon-2 p.m. at Cal State Los Angeles and include performances, art workshops and educational videos.<\/p>\n
The Oct. 12, 1492, sighting of land by a sailor on board the Pinta during Christopher Columbus\u2019 initial voyage to the Americas was first marked as a holiday in 1892.<\/p>\n
President Benjamin Harrison declared Oct. 21, 1892, \u201cas a general holiday for the people of the United States\u201d to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus\u2019 discovery of America following passage of a joint resolution by both houses of Congress.<\/p>\n
The resolution came in response to a lynching in New Orleans, where a mob had killed 11 Italian immigrants.<\/p>\n
In 1907, Colorado became the first state to declare Columbus Day a holiday.<\/p>\n
Columbus Day became a federal holiday in 1968, celebrated on the second Monday in October under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.<\/p>\n
In his proclamation declaring Monday as Columbus Day, President Donald Trump said, \u201cOutrageously, in recent years, Christopher Columbus has been a prime target of a vicious and merciless campaign to erase our history, slander our heroes, and attack our heritage. Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder my leadership, those days are finally over \u2014 and our nation will now abide by a simple truth: Christopher Columbus was a true American hero and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles city and county offices will be closed Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day while federal offices will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1409,2336,166,2337,48,52,51,47,50,49,2338,2339,2335],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-city","tag-closed","tag-county","tag-indigenous","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-offices","tag-peoples","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}