Columbus Day century found definitive evidence proving April 22 to be the actual date of the arrival of Cabral's fleet on South American shores. In 2000, the government of Brazil used the date to celebrate 500 years of the existence of the country. The festivities, however, were met with protests by indigenous peoples who claimed it marked 500 years of genocide of indigenous Brazilians. Only a handful of Caribbean countries still observe holidays related to Columbus Day. In Belize, October 12 is celebrated as Day of the Americas or Pan American Day. In the Bahamas, it was formerly known as Discovery Day,
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