Message from Zohran Mamdani on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Monday, October 12, 2026. Occupied Éenda-Lunaapeewáhkiing/Lenapehoking (New York City). – October 12 is Indigenous Peoples Day in the United States of America. Indigenous Peoples’ Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October. It began as a counter-celebration held on the same day as the U.S. federal holiday of Columbus Day.

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New York City still has not officially recognized Indigenous Peoples Day, despite being home to the largest population of Native Americans and Indigenous people from Mexico and other countries according to 2020 census data.

The Native American Council’s 14th Annual Powwow in Manhattan, New York City, was organized by the Columbia University Native American Council on May 2nd, 2026.

The celebration of Spiderwoman Theater’s 50th Anniversary and the celebration of the 100th birthday of Gloria Miguel, co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater in Brooklyn, Éenda-Lunaapeewáhkiing (New York City), was organized by the Spiderwoman Theater, on Saturday, August 15, 2026.

The “3rd Annual United Lunáapeew/Lenape Nations Pow Wow” in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Éenda-Lunaapeewáhkiing (New York City), was on Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday, October 4th, 2026.

On Sunday, October 4, 2026, Indigenous Peoples Day NYC, organizers of the Indigenous Peoples Day in Randall’s Island, Manhattan, on Sunday, October 11 and Monday, October 12, 2026, said on Instagram, “THE CITY OF NEW YORK REQUIRES US TO PAY TO GATHER ON LAND THAT WAS ORIGINALLY, AND STILL IS, INDIGENOUS LAND.”

On Saturday, October 10, 2026, Indigenous Peoples Day NYC said on Instagram, “We will still gather on Randall’s Island this Sunday and Monday to come together in prayer, song, dance, and celebration. While rain is in the forecast, it will not stop us from gathering in community, honoring our ancestors, and celebrating the strength, resilience, and spirit of Indigenous peoples.”

Over a dozen states, Washington, D.C., and numerous cities officially observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

There are five statues of Christopher Columbus in New York City. There are parks, streets and avenues named after colonizer, rapist, slave trader, monster, war criminal, terrorist White European Christopher Columbus in New York City.

All the Columbus statues must be replaced with statues of Indigenous Lenape people, the original inhabitants of New York City.

All the streets, avenues and parks that are named after Columbus must be renamed after Indigenous Lenape people.

Columbus Circle located at W 59 Street and 8 Ave must be renamed as Lenape Circle.

Christopher Columbus was a rapist, war criminal, terrorist, white supremacist, slave trader. Criminals should not be honored! (more information below).

Why do some people love terrorists, war criminals like Christopher Columbus and Benjamin Netanyahu?

On Sunday, October 11, 2026, NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani published a video about Italians on social media and said, “Happy Italian Heritage Month, New York. Here’s continuing to fight for Vito Marcantonio’s vision of a government that works for all working people.”

On Monday, October 12, 2026, New York City mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani published on social media pictures and videos of Native Americans and said, “Kuwiinguneewul! Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day to the Indigenous New Yorkers who continue to shape our city, sustain ancestral traditions, and carry forward generations of resilience.”

“From Inwood Hill Park to the shores of the Rockaways, Indigenous history is all around us. Long before New York City bore its name, this land was home to the Lenape people.” Mamdani added, “This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor that history.”

NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend the Christopher Columbus Parade in Manhattan on October 12, 2026.

Mamdani also did not attend Indigenous events on Sunday, October 11 and Monday, October 12, 2026.

The National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade in Manhattan will be on Saturday, October 17, 2026. It starts at 10:00 AM outside Madison Square Park (along Madison Avenue between East 23rd and East 26th Streets) and marches down Broadway to end at 17th Street and Broadway near Union Square.

The Intertribal dancing and singing will be on Sunday, October 18, 2026. 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Governors Island. Organized by the American Indian Community House. WWW.AICH.ORG.

Christopher Columbus was a rapist, war criminal, terrorist, white supremacist, slave trader.

Sexual Violence and Rape
Primary source documents confirm that sexual violence occurred under Columbus’s command, and he explicitly permitted or overlooked it among his men.
• The Michele de Cuneo Letter: A primary account written by a childhood friend of Columbus who accompanied him on his second voyage details the brutal rape of an indigenous Carib woman whom Columbus had captured and given to Cuneo as a slave.
• Sex Trafficking: In 1500, Columbus wrote a letter to a friend lamenting that girls as young as nine or ten were being bought and sold into sexual slavery, noting that “there are many dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.” While he framed it as a lament, critics point out it occurred directly under his administration.

War Crimes and Atrocities
By modern standards, Columbus’s actions in the Caribbean constitute systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• The Bobadilla Report: In 1500, the Spanish Crown sent an investigator, Francisco de Bobadilla, to Hispaniola to investigate Columbus’s governance. The unearthed 48-page report detailed horrific brutality used to suppress both indigenous people and Spanish colonists.
• Massacres and Torture: Columbus routinely ordered the severing of limbs (hands, ears, noses) of indigenous people who failed to meet strict quotas for gold collection. He also used mass execution, public hangings, and hunting humans with attack dogs to suppress resistance.

Terrorism
While “terrorism” is a modern political term, historians note that Columbus used systemic terror as a deliberate governing tactic to subjugate the Taíno population.
• Psychological Subjugation: To prevent rebellion among a population that vastly outnumbered his men, Columbus ordered public spectacles of extreme violence. Dismembered bodies were paraded through villages to terrorize the local population into absolute compliance.

White Supremacy
His worldview was rooted in Eurocentrism and religious supremacy, which laid the structural groundwork for modern racism.
• Subjugation of Non-Christians: Columbus viewed indigenous peoples through a lens of absolute cultural and religious superiority. In his own journals, he noted upon his very first arrival that the native people were gentle and would make “excellent servants,” immediately viewing them as subjects for forced labor and conversion.

Slave trade
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Columbus initiated the transatlantic slave trade, shipping hundreds of Taíno people to Europe to be sold, establishing a racialized hierarchy where Europeans held absolute dominion over non-European peoples.

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