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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad

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At the Grand Canyon NP (attempting to white wash history)

The passages included text stating that settlers “exploited land for mining and grazing” and that federal officials “pushed tribes off their land” to establish the park.

The park also removed references to cattle ranchers “carelessly overgrazing” the land, tourists “foolishly” leaving trash in the park, and entrepreneurs who “profited excessively” from tourism.

I was ready to mock this move (and still am), but those passages do strike me as editorializing that's a bit more low-brow than what I'd expect from the NPS.
 
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Now he's got his hands on the Tetons.

After Trump order, Teton park removes sign about explorer who massacred Native Americans

Interior denies connection to Trump order to remove 'disparaging' history.​

Grand Teton National Park has removed a sign in the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center which included details of how an explorer depicted in the center participated in — and bragged about — a massacre of Native Americans.

Sometime between September 2023 and July 2024, according to old photos, the park added new language to the pedestal underneath a sculpture of Gustavus Cheyney Doane informing readers that Doane participated in the Marias Massacre, in which the U.S. Army killed over 170 Piegan Blackfeet, predominantly women, children and elders, along the banks of the Marias River in Montana.
 
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National Park Service Returns Brochure Calling Civil Rights Leader’s Klansman Assassin A ‘Racist’

The National Park Service returned brochures they reportedly pulled from a monument honoring civil rights activist Medgar Evers on Thursday, calling his assassin, a Klu Klux Klan member, a “racist” following massive backlash.

Park Service officials told Mississippi Today the brochures at Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument describing Evers’ Byron De La Beckwith as “racist” had been pulled and set to be replaced with a new version, removing that description. The officials told the outlet the original brochures were “outdated.”

Evers, who Trump once called a “hero,” was a World War II veteran who fought segregation in Mississippi upon his return was killed by white supremacist Beckwith in 1963. The activist’s history, however, was wiped from sections of the Arlington National Cemetery website last year.
 
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