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Charlottesville takes down two more statues, deemed offensive to Native Americans, in weekend of removals


Charlottesville takes down two more statues, deemed offensive to Native Americans, in weekend of removals
Teo Armus, Hannah Natanson
CHARLOTTESVILLE It was a big weekend for statue removals in this university town where they ve become a flash point in recent years.
Shortly after the city carted away a monument to Confederate general Stonewall Jackson and a statue of Robert E. Lee that triggered a deadly weekend of violence in 2017, workers carried off two more statues that critics said depicted Native Americans in a racist and disparaging manner.
One statue, which sat in a grassy park on the University of Virginia campus, showed Revolutionary War general George Rogers Clark riding a horse toward three unarmed Native Americans as two frontiersmen waited behind him, one of them in the act of raising his rifle. The pedestal declared in engraved letters, “CONQUEROR OF THE NORTHWEST,” a reference to his battle prowess against the British. ....

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