San Francisco Removes Statue Of Native Man At Feet Of Colonizers
The statue, called Early Days, showed a Native American gazing up at a vaquero, or Spanish cowboy, and a proselytizing priest. Native groups have long called for the sculpture's removal.
In the pre-dawn darkness on Friday morning, work crews removed a controversial statue from San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, after the city's arts commission unanimously voted to take down the "racist and disrespectful sculpture."
The statue depicts "the degradation and genocide of Native American peoples" using stereotypes that "are now universally viewed in February.
