Tag: National Park Service

Chief Sitting Bull - Hunkpapa Lakota (1831-1890)

US: Trump Administration Erases Native American & Slavery History from US National Parks! (1.2.2026)

The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, the two major professional organizations for historians in the United States, issued a joint statement upon the signing of the executive order, calling the administration’s policies “a systemic campaign to distort, manipulate, and erase significant parts of the historical record.”

“Recent directives insidiously prioritize narrow ideology over historical research, historical accuracy, and the actual experiences of Americans,” the joint statement said.

Native American communities have been particularly affected. According to the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit advocacy group, funding cuts have severely undermined the work of more than 200 Tribal Historic Preservation Officers nationwide. These positions help tribes protect their heritage sites and ensure accurate representation of their history.

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Stonewall Erases Trans!

US: Trans Erasure – Protests at Stonewall National Monument – “LGBTQ” changed to “LGB”! (16.2.2025)

“The transgender community threw the first bricks that launched the contemporary LGBTQ human rights movement,” said State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal. 

“It was trans women of colour, trans women like Sylvia, Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, trans women that put their lives on the line, that stood on the front lines of this revolution. They are the reason why we have the rights that we have today, not just for trans people, but for LGBT people in general,” Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative board member Angelica Christina said. 

“We’re going to do everything we can, especially with our nonprofit that fights for equality all over the globe, Stonewall Gives Back Initiative, to make sure that people know that we’re not going to tolerate this. Progress and civil rights, LGBTQ rights have never been made by being silent, and we’re not going to be silent,” Stonewall Inn co-owner Stacy Lentz said.

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US: The Dark Side of National Parks

The US National Park system represents a colonial and imperialist policy designed to turn the former hunting and burial grounds of the Native Americans, into playthings for the conquering White people (and their allies). As there still exist millions of acres not used for European settlement, the Native American peoples could ‘still’ live on these vast lands, but the European settlers will not allow what they perceive as a threat to their hegemony. Instead, the Native American peoples are forced into artificially ‘limited’ areas, and fed alcohol, drugs and Christianity to keep them ‘pacified’.

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