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Columbus Day 2024 Alternatives. In hawaii, columbus day has been replaced with discoverers’ day, a holiday that celebrates the arrival of the polynesians on the islands. Alaska, hawai’i and south dakota do not celebrate columbus day, and south dakota now observes native american day instead.

Since 1971 the second monday in october) to commemorate the landing of christopher columbus on october 12, 1492, in the new world. Some states and localities even “replace” columbus day with.