VOA explains Indigenous Peoples' Day plus Canadian Thanksgiving and Leif Erikson Day

Happy Indigenous People's Day, Canadian Thanksgiving, and a late Leif Erikson Day! I begin today's celebration of multiple holidays with Voice of America's Understanding Indigenous Peoples' Day.


That's a good explanation of both the history and the ideology behind the observation, which is still not a federal holiday in the same way Columbus Day is. Let's see how long that lasts.

For an explanation of another holiday's history with a lighter tone, I'm turning to Squirreled History asking and answering What Is Canadian Thanksgiving?

Today we're looking at Canadian Thanksgiving, how did it start, how is it celebrated and how is if different from its American counterpart, that's what we're here to talk about.

I might just return to Squirreled History for Wester, which I plan on celebrating this coming Sunday.

I close with National Day Calendar's National Leif Erickson Day | October 9.

National Leif Erickson Day honors the Icelandic-born explorer, Leif Erikson. The Norse explorer earns credit for bringing the first Europeans known to have set foot in North America. Leif Erikson left the European continent in 999 and landed in North America around the year 1,000.

#LeifEriksonDay

Tour a Norwegian heritage museum. Learn about Norse heritage, their exploration, and more. Dive into the story of this exploration in books, too. We suggest Who was Leif Erikson by Nico Medina or Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. Share your Norse heritage.

Hinga, dinga, durgen!

Stay tuned for National Coming Out Day tomorrow.