The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco voted on Tuesday to rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day to honour Native Americans who became victims of the nation's colonisation.
The northern California city becomes one of 55 cities across the US to change the holiday's title, which gets its name from Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, with the board voting 10-1 in favour of the change.
But the decision did not sit well with all locals with some Italian-Americans dismayed at the decision.
"This is an insult to the Italians who have done so much for the city of San Francisco," Christina Olivolo told The San Francisco Examiner.
Supervisor Aaron Perskin, who represents San Francisco's Italian neighbourhood North beach, proposed a postponement for the decision to work out a solution for both parties. His postponement was knocked back.
Mr Perskin said he received plenty of emails from people asking to find a solution that benefits both the Indigenous and Italian communities.
The move means all city official communications, notices, calendars and publications will refer to the holiday as Indigenous Peoples Day.
The nationwide movement has seen cities stop referring to the explorer to pay respect to the victims of colonisation.
The day commemorates Columbus 'discovering' America around 12 October, 1492.
However, historians have since pointed out that Columbus was not the first European to discover America and possibly never even made it to the portion of the continent known today as the US.
Historians believe Vikings were found to have founded a Norse village on Newfoundland some 500 years earlier.
Advocates for a name change and historians also point to the horrific atrocities Columbus enforced on Indigenous tribes he came across.
