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What is Indigenous Peoples' Day? A day that encompasses celebration, protest, and the rewriting of history

What is Indigenous Peoples' Day? A day that encompasses celebration, protest, and the rewriting of history

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October 12th, 2026

What is Indigenous Peoples' Day? A day that encompasses celebration, protest, and the rewriting of history

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Through ceremonies, dance, and oratory, Indigenous peoples commemorate and celebrate their centuries-long history of indomitable resilience.

原住民藉由仪式、舞蹈与演讲,铭记并颂扬其数世纪以来不屈不挠的坚韧历程。

Former President Joe Biden officially commemorated Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021.

前总统乔·拜登于2021年正式纪念原住民日。

A growing number of states and cities have likewise come to recognize the holiday — a shift away from the long-entrenched tradition of celebrating the explorer Christopher Columbus toward a focus on the peoples whose lives and cultures were irrevocably transformed by colonialism.

越来越多的州和城市亦相继承认这一节日——从长期以来根植于庆祝探险家克里斯托弗·哥伦布的传统,转向关注那些其生活与文化因殖民主义而遭永久改变的人民。

The following seeks to explore the reasons why it has been given the name Indigenous Peoples' Day, as well as the ways in which people celebrate it.

以下旨在探讨其被冠以原住民日之名的缘由,以及人们以何种方式予以庆祝。

Over the course of several decades, Indigenous Peoples' Day has come to be recognized in a myriad of forms and under a variety of names, serving both to celebrate Indigenous history and culture and to acknowledge the manifold challenges that Indigenous peoples continue to confront to this day.

数十载光阴流转,原住民日以纷繁各异的形式与名目获得承认,既为颂扬其历史与文化,亦为体认其至今仍须直面的种种挑战。

In a statement, Biden once remarked that the commemorative day was intended to "pay tribute to Native Americans and to the tribal nations that continue to thrive to this very day."

拜登曾于一份声明中称,该纪念日意在“向美国原住民以及那些时至今日仍生生不息的部落民族致以敬意”。

It is typically observed on the second Monday of October, coinciding exactly with Columbus Day, and constitutes a federally recognized holiday; it was established in response to discrimination against Italian Americans and to honor Columbus's 1492 discovery of the lands that would later come to be known as the Americas.

它通常定于10月的第二个星期一,恰与哥伦布日同日,系一联邦法定假日;其设立旨在回应针对意大利裔美国人的歧视,并藉以表彰哥伦布于1492年发现那片后来被称为美洲的疆域。

In recent years, this day has become a symbolic nexus where multiple demands converge—serving at once as a protest against Columbus monuments, a plea for environmental justice, a claim for the return of Indigenous lands, and a powerful articulation of concern over the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

近年来,此日已然成为多重诉求交织的象征性节点——既是对哥伦布纪念碑的抗议,亦是对环境正义的吁求,对归还原住民土地的声索,以及对失踪与被谋杀原住民妇女处境之关注的有力彰显。

President Donald Trump has declared that he has no intention of recognizing Indigenous Peoples' Day alongside Columbus Day in October.

总统唐纳德·特朗普宣称,他无意在10月将原住民日与哥伦布日一并予以承认。

Although Indigenous Peoples' Day is not a federally recognized holiday, several states and the District of Columbia have established holidays commemorating Indigenous peoples, some of which fall on the second Monday of October.

尽管原住民日并非联邦法定假日,但若干州及华盛顿特区均设有纪念原住民的假日,其中部分定于10月的第二个星期一。

Indigenous Peoples' Day often coexists alongside Columbus Day, or else outright supplants this federal holiday.

原住民日往往与哥伦布日并行不悖,抑或径行取代这一联邦假日。

Numerous cities and school systems have likewise incorporated Indigenous Peoples' Day into their observances.

诸多城市与学校系统亦将原住民日纳入 observance 之列。

"For generations, federal policies systematically sought to assimilate and displace Native people and eradicate Native cultures," Biden wrote in his Indigenous Peoples' Day proclamation.

“数代以来,联邦政策始终在系统性地谋求同化并驱逐原住民,同时根除其文化,”拜登于原住民日公告中如是写道。

On this day, we profoundly recognize the resilience and strength demonstrated by Indigenous peoples, as well as the immeasurable positive influence they have exerted upon every facet of American society.

值此今日,我们深切体认到原住民所彰显的坚韧与力量,以及其对美国社会诸层面所施加的不可估量的积极影响。

In a separate proclamation marking Columbus Day, Biden extolled the contributions that Italian Americans have made to American society, while also acknowledging the violence and trauma that Columbus and other explorers of his era inflicted upon Native Americans.

在哥伦布日的另一份公告中,拜登盛赞了意大利裔美国人对美国社会所作出的贡献,但同时也提及了哥伦布及那个时代的其他探险者给美洲原住民带来的暴力与创伤。

On October 12, 1492, Columbus—an Italian—landed in what is now the Bahamas, thereby becoming the first in a wave of European explorers to pursue gold and other riches, including slaves, in the Americas.

1492年10月12日,哥伦布——一位意大利人——登陆现今的巴哈马,遂成为欧洲探险家浪潮中率先在美洲追逐黄金及其他财富(包括奴隶)之人。

During that expedition, the indigenous population was decimated on a massive scale.

在那次探险过程中,原住民人口遭到了大规模的消灭。

"Today, we also acknowledge the painful history of wrongs and atrocities that many European explorers inflicted on Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities," Biden wrote.

“今天,我们亦承认众多欧洲探险家对部落民族与原住民社区所施加的谬误与暴行的那段痛史,”拜登写道。

"It is a measure of our greatness as a nation that we do not seek to bury these shameful episodes of our past — that we face them honestly, we bring them to the light of day, and we do all we can to address them."

“此乃衡量我们作为一个国家之伟大的尺度:我们无意掩埋过往这些可耻之事——我们坦然直面它们,将其昭示于光天化日之下,并竭尽所能予以弥合。”

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