A bill changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day in Maine is heading to the governor's desk after senators voted to approve the House-passed measure this week.

While Columbus Day is still a federal holiday, Maine would become the eighth state to take up such legislation in an effort to rename it in honor of Native Americans.

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The Maine House approved the measure last month in an 88-51 vote, and the Senate approved it Thursday, 19-14.

The bill will now be sent to Gov. Janet Mills (D), who has indicated she will sign it into law.

State Rep. Rachel Talbot-Ross (D) previously said Columbus should not be celebrated or honored.

“Christopher Columbus, while making an important impact on history, was also a war criminal,” she said. “And is the symbolic genesis of the idea that indigenous people of the Americas were a savage and inferior race that should be exterminated in order for progress and colonization.”