Until a year ago I had never heard of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Until last week I didn’t even know how to spell it.

Apparently the term really is peoples, so if we’re celebrating their day it’s really peoples’. The day of these peoples.

(It’s Presidents’ Day and Veterans’ Day all over again, and I’ve written about those two so many times I can’t even link a definitive answer.)

Dangling an apostrophe off the edge like that is the most dangerous form of punctuation there is, but I believe in this case it is apt.

Didn’t know you were getting a grammar lesson in addition to the history lesson.

Of course there are some agencies still calling this holiday “Columbus Day.” (They don’t know Columbus has been canceled.) I get trying to whitewash Coumbus, but if you really wanted to draw attention to this you should have deleted the holiday altogether. That would have made people notice. Would’a pissed ’em off too, and would have brought about the greatest outpouring of Columbian appreciation since 1492.

Hey, how come it’s Columbus Day and not Columbus’ Day?

Guess it doesn’t matter now.