Today is a holiday in the United States, but we wanted to explain something about it.

This is a confusing holiday, because in one corner it's Columbus Day.

In 1492 Columbus, the ocean was a courier.

In 1492 Columbus, the ocean was a courageous thing to do.

We are not acknowledging Christopher Columbus all across the nation right now.

There are certain cities like Los Angeles just as past Indigenous Peoples Day,

as well as Albuquerque, Seattle.

This confusion can be frustrating for people like Tucker Carlson.

It sounds like the City Council of Portland is setting the message.

It would have been better if the Europeans hadn't come to America in the first place,

and that's why they were eliminated in Columbus Day.

But Tucker might be fighting a losing battle.

City leaders here say emails are flooding in from residents,

that up with celebrating the man who they say brutalized the Native American people.

The Inuect and Cherokee, the Aztec and the Nobody,

all the daughter and the great.

Columbus is ill across the sea, but someone was already here.

Moving away from Columbus Day is one way of acknowledging the decimation

and subjugation of Indigenous people in the United States.

But there's also a big push happening right now,

a push to make good on some really old promises.

In 1835, basically what you had was the United States government

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