Columbus Day and now I tremble as I write." In the summer of 1990, 350 representatives from American Indian groups from all over the hemisphere, met in Quito, Ecuador, at the first Intercontinental Gathering of Indigenous People in the Americas, to mobilize against the 500th anniversary (quin-centennial) celebration of Columbus Day planned for 1992. The following summer, in Davis, California, more than a hundred Native Americans gathered for a follow-up meeting to the Quito conference. They declared October 12, 1992 to be "International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People." Columbus Day Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the
Chinese New Year article on Lunar New Year. For other countries where Chinese New Year is celebrated but not an official holiday, see the section below on Festivities outside China. During the festival, people around China will prepare different gourmet for families and guests. Influenced by the flourished cultures, foods from different places look and taste totally different. Among them, the most well-known ones are dumplings from northern China and Tangyuan from southern China. On the eighth day of the lunar month prior to Chinese New Year, the "Laba" holiday (), a traditional porridge, Laba porridge (), is served in remembrance of an