Why no, they don’t have bigger issues to worry about.

Via Star Tribune:

Minneapolis is preparing to strike “Columbus Day” from its calendar this October.

The City Council is expected to vote Friday on a resolution that would rename the federal holiday “Indigenous People’s Day” on all city communications. The vote follows a similar effort in Red Wing, where the city mulled changing Columbus Day to “First People’s Day” earlier this year.

The Red Wing city council has yet to act on the resolution. City Council administrator Kay Kuhlmann said in an e-mail that the council discussed the matter in a workshop but has not scheduled it for action on any upcoming agenda.

The effort in Minneapolis is being spearheaded by new City Council Member Alondra Cano. She said they have been working with the Native American Community Development Institute and a handful of other Native American leaders.

“This is more about elevating the American Indian perspective than it is about being anti-Columbus,” Cano said. “Although there are plenty of people that will talk about the deep violence that

Christopher Columbus used and enacted when he first came to this part of the world.”

The Red Wing resolution noted that Columbus never stepped foot in North America and practiced “extreme cruelty” in the New World. A full accounting of Columbus’ legacy in America is documented in a recent podcast from Backstory.

The Minneapolis City Council is dominated by the liberal Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL).