City of Charlottesville removes Lewis and Clark statue following emergency meeting
And it could be re-contextualized within the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center
*The family of Sacajawea spells her name with a “j” instead of a “g”
As the crowd dissipated from Court Square, where people witnessed the removal of the Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson monument and — earlier in the morning — fellow Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Charlottesville City Council convened virtually in an emergency meeting on Zoom. The reason was to announce the relocation of the Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark monument from the intersection of West Main and Ridge streets.
Team Henry Enterprises LLC, the contractors who were still in town after removing the Confederate monuments, had a lunch break before getting to work Saturday afternoon on the monument to the explorers.
In November 2019, the council held a work session with descendants of Sacajawea present to discuss the future of the monument — locals and Sacajawea’s descendants had expressed displeasure with her depiction among the men she led an expedition with.
While Meriwether Lewis and William Clark stand tall, their travel companion and guide, Sacajawea of the Shoshone tribe, cowers beneath them in the bronze representation of the trio.
In the early 1800s, the group had traversed the country after the United State purchased land from France. Then-President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition headed by fellow Albemarle native Lewis and Clark, also of Virginia.
Calling it the “worst representation” she has seen of her ancestor, Rose Abrahamson also noted that the statue was erected in 1919. This was also around the same time that Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments were put up by the same benefactor, Paul Goodloe McIntire.
“We all know it was during a time period of intolerance, misinformation and discrimination,” Abrahamson said during the work session in 2019. “In addition, it was during a time period that governments elevated the achievements of dominant society’s heroes and their histories.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/Transportation...LSS-25913/
And it could be re-contextualized within the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center
*The family of Sacajawea spells her name with a “j” instead of a “g”
As the crowd dissipated from Court Square, where people witnessed the removal of the Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson monument and — earlier in the morning — fellow Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Charlottesville City Council convened virtually in an emergency meeting on Zoom. The reason was to announce the relocation of the Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark monument from the intersection of West Main and Ridge streets.
Team Henry Enterprises LLC, the contractors who were still in town after removing the Confederate monuments, had a lunch break before getting to work Saturday afternoon on the monument to the explorers.
In November 2019, the council held a work session with descendants of Sacajawea present to discuss the future of the monument — locals and Sacajawea’s descendants had expressed displeasure with her depiction among the men she led an expedition with.
While Meriwether Lewis and William Clark stand tall, their travel companion and guide, Sacajawea of the Shoshone tribe, cowers beneath them in the bronze representation of the trio.
In the early 1800s, the group had traversed the country after the United State purchased land from France. Then-President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition headed by fellow Albemarle native Lewis and Clark, also of Virginia.
Calling it the “worst representation” she has seen of her ancestor, Rose Abrahamson also noted that the statue was erected in 1919. This was also around the same time that Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments were put up by the same benefactor, Paul Goodloe McIntire.
“We all know it was during a time period of intolerance, misinformation and discrimination,” Abrahamson said during the work session in 2019. “In addition, it was during a time period that governments elevated the achievements of dominant society’s heroes and their histories.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/Transportation...LSS-25913/
