The North Dakota Department of Transportation has said that their decision to strip the image of Native American leader Marcellus Red Tomahawk from the state’s highway signs had nothing to do with political correctness. Yet emails obtained by the Associated Press (and obtained by me too) indicate the opposite. State officials had received a civil…
North Dakota DOT Did Receive Civil Rights Complaint About Red Tomahawk Highway Signs Before Changing Them
Back in July I wrote a post about the North Dakota Department of Transportation removing the image of a Native American leader from the state’s highway signs. The leader in question was Marcellus Red Tomhawk who is something of a controversial figure due to his role in the death of Sitting Bull. His family members…
Red Tomahawk Descendants Aren’t Pleased With NDDOT Change to Highway Signs
Earlier this month I was the first to report that the North Dakota Department of Transportation had quietly begun to remove the image of Native American leader Marcellus Red Tomahawk from the state’s highway signs. Today in an Associated Press report a descendant of Red Thomahawk and a tribal historian express disappointment and frustration with the…
North Dakota Removing Native American Imagery From Highway Signs
This morning a SAB reader contacted me about a change he noticed to some of North Dakota’s highway signs, and included a photo of one of the new signs which you can see above. For years signs marking state highways (as well as the logo for the North Dakota Highway Patrol) have featured the image…