#Indigenous activists call for removal of conquistador, missionary statues
“#Indigenous activists call for removal of conquistador, missionary statues”
June 30, 2020 | 12:08pm
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Some of the monuments have already been toppled or vandalized.
Statues of Junípero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan priest known for enslaving Native Americans, were knocked over in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and one of Spanish conquistador Diego de Vargas in Santa Fe was also taken down, USA Today reported.
A monument dedicated to explorer Juan Ponce de Leóns — who enslaved indigenous people during his attempt to colonize Florida, was egged and spray painted in the Sunshine State.
Statues of Juan de Oñate, the Spanish conquistador who oversaw the 1599 Acoma Massacre that left as many as 1,000 Pueblo people dead, were placed in storage in New Mexico.
“It is an act of violence to even have the statues in our homelands,” Elena Ortiz, chair of the Santa Fe Freedom Council of The Red Nation, a Native American advocacy group, told USA Today. “It’s not just the statue, but it’s what it represented: the celebration of our genocide.”
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Statues of controversial figures, including George Washington, Christopher Columbus and Confederate generals, have been vandalized or removed across the nation amid protests against racial inequality and police brutality.
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