Monuments are not neutral symbols of remembrance but active tools that shape historical narratives by choosing what to remember and what to erase; for example, monuments celebrating westward expansion simultaneously represent indigenous dispossession, and decisions about which figures to commemorate (such as carving presidents into Lakota land rather than acknowledging genocide) represent active choices that determine which historical perspectives are elevated to significance while others become mere footnotes.
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The shadow side. Monuments are tools of historical erasure as much as remembrance.
They declare this is what matters.
Everything else is footnotes. The choice is to carve four presidents into Lakota land rather than acknowledge the genocide that made that possible.
Or the choice to do that is an active choice.
Every monument to westward expansion is simultaneously a monument to indigenous dispossession.
Columbus Day much? Thanksgiving much?
Moving on.
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