Kartik (month) seventh month, beginning on 18 October and lasting until 15 November. Several major religious holidays take place in Kartik month. Those are as follows: The festival of Kartik Poornima (15th day Full Moon) falls in this month, celebrated as Dev Deepavali in Varanasi. This coincides with the nirvana of the Jain Tirthankara - Mahavira and the birth of the Sikh Guru Nanak, Guru Nanak Jayanti. And also, the well known festival, for the god of Sabarimalai, Ayyappan's garland festival. This is also known as Tripuri Pournima. The second day of first of Karthika, is also called Bharatrudwitiya (similar to Bhai
Indigenous Peoples' Day votes in Oberlin, Ohio, followed later by Bangor, Maine in the earlier weeks of the same month, the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. Children in schools have been taught about Christopher Columbus as a hero, but in the book "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years", some say that children should be taught about the truth of what Christopher Columbus started and what affect his actions had upon the native people of the Americas. Numerous efforts in the Americas have honored Native Americans as part of Columbus Day, or by designating