If I had my way, NO state would celebrate such a ridiculous holiday.
Columbus never set foot on the North American continent, although he did, at one point, make landfall on, what is now Venezuela. By 1492 there were, already, 145 million people living in the Americas. They had "discovered" America LONG before Columbus ever got on a boat. Besides, there's solid evidence that several other Europeans had visited North America LONG before 1492. About the only thing Columbus really did was to completely destroy the people living on every island he visited.
Even the folks back home were not all that impressed with his exploits. He was stripped of all his honors and titles before he died.
South Dakota has the right idea. In that state, today, it's NATIVE AMERICAN DAY.
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