Diverse Education February 1, 2016 Brown Faculty to Consider Celebrating Indigenous People’s Day by Associated Press Brown University faculty members are scheduled to vote this week on whether to rename the holiday once known on campus as Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. The Ivy League university in 2009 dropped the Columbus Day designation and changed the name of the holiday to Fall Weekend. But some people think the renaming didn’t go far enough. Efforts are underway across the country to drop Columbus Day, which some say ignores centuries of oppression of indigenous peoples in the Americas. Brown associate professor Linford Fisher tells The Providence Journal that Fall Weekend was only a “halfway measure,” aimed at “stifling controversy” and the name should be changed to honor Native Americans. The faculty vote is scheduled for Tuesday. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-592-4820 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.