ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – Outgoing Albuquerque City Council President Rey Garduno is calling for the city to celebrate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Albuquerque doesn’t observe Columbus Day, the official holiday recognized by the federal and state government as falling on the second Monday in October, reported The Albuquerque Journal. Garduno, a Democrat, doesn’t mind that.

He told the Journal that anyone who thinks Columbus discovered anything “needs to take a refresher course in history.”

“So Columbus ‘discovers’ America and the indigenous people who were already here are thankful because now they know where they live?” he said.

Garduno says American Indians think of Columbus as someone who ushered in centuries of genocide.