Indigenous

Seattle and Minneapolis are calling this coming Monday "Indigenous Peoples Day."

Which isn't necessarily a problem. Even if it does imply that Europeans were the only bad people in the world, that those here carry this blood guilt to this day - unto the 7th generation of the 7th generation or thereabouts - there's no reason not to look at it from the other side of the discovery of the continents of the Americas. Especially since Columbus didn't really know what he had done. (If you ever wondered why it's North and South America, it's because Amerigo Vespucci was the first one to realize that they weren't really in Asia.)

In any case, that new name is probably a better name than "Sorry we inadvertently spread diseases we hardly noticed - spread in ways that wouldn't be accepted for nearly four hundred years - that decimated the population until people didn't even know this place was once thickly populated" Day. The people who came to the New World didn't realize they were bring deadly infectious agents, and wouldn't have been able to stop them if they'd tried. P.J. O' Rourke put it well when he noted that the outcome would have been very much the same if the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria could have been commanded by Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama, and Bono.

Certainly many of the early explorers were unpleasant people, who might have rejoiced in the gifts of Providence if they had realized how their victories were happening. (They probably did rejoice and praise God, actually: Pizzaro and Cortez were storming through the New World in the 1520s, at the height of the Protestant Reformation, which appears to have inspired them to be more Catholic than ever.) Many of the indigenous would have been quite as unpleasant, given the chance. It had only been about 60 years before Columbus that the Mexica had revived what a Christopher Lee film would lovingly refer to as an "Old Religion," with human sacrifice to ensure the sun would rise each morning.  If Cortez hadn't been able to overcome them, he would likely have ended with his heart exposed to the glory of the Sun God Huitzilopochtli.

 (Whether that would be an advantage or not is left as an exercise for the reader.)