{"id":120777,"date":"2025-08-05T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120777\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:49:10","slug":"feds-reviewing-books-on-minnesotas-tribes-at-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120777\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds reviewing books on Minnesota’s tribes at national parks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drews said he was inspired to teach children about their Ojibwe culture and language because of what happened to his grandmother. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a child, she was sent to [an Indian boarding school] and forced not to learn her language\u201d and to give up her culture, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like the momentum had been going well for our people, but this? It\u2019s tragic,\u201d he said, adding that he plans to reach out to U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar for help.<\/p>\n

Librarians, historians and University of Minnesota data experts started a \u201cSave our signs\u201d campaign to document monuments, signs, books and websites to preserve any historic information that is removed. To date, the public has submitted to the campaign more than 3,000 photos nationwide, including 92 from Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Nationwide, the lists submitted from parks to the Department of Interior for possible removal included scores of plaques and books referencing George Washington owning slaves<\/a> and Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s polio, according to the Washington Post. One book reported was \u201cWives, Slaves, and Servant Girls: Advertisements for Female Runaways in American Newspapers 1770-1783.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Department of Interior has signs posted at all 433 national parks and monuments asking public to report possible anti-American signs or materials. Historians and free speech advocates fear censorship. (provided)<\/p>\n

Park employees in Minnesota and Wisconsin said they did not know what the Interior Department intended to do with the submitted lists or who would be evaluating their appropriateness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drews said he was inspired to teach children about their Ojibwe culture and language because of what happened…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-120777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114976008651502762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}