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At Cadillac Mountain, a Missing Wabanaki Marker and the Fight over What National Parks Should Tell
The removal affected a marker on Cadillac Mountain and 29 other park signs as part of a broader federal review of interpretive materials.
- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered the removal of a marker at Acadia National Park's Cadillac Mountain summit that explained the mountain's sacred significance to the Wabanaki people.
- The marker was among 30 items removed from Acadia under an administration campaign to strip national parks of materials deemed disparaging to American history, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.
- Penobscot Nation citizen Jennifer Neptune said the removal is "a real gut punch" for Indigenous and Black communities, as park staff and Wabanaki members had built trust over the past decade.
- A coalition of conservation, history, and science organizations is fighting in court to restore the Acadia signs and hundreds of other items removed by the federal government following a February lawsuit filing.
- The Wabanaki Confederacy, known as "the people of the dawnland," have inhabited the northern seaboard for over 10,000 years as the first known stewards of land that includes much of the national park.
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At Cadillac Mountain, a missing Wabanaki marker and the fight over wha
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — In the soft light of dawn, an Ohio tourist studied the interpretive sign at the summit of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, reading about how magma formed the ground under her feet. There is one sign she and the other 4 million-plus tourists who visit Acadia annually can no longer see at the summit: a marker explaining the mountain’s sacred significance to the Wabanaki people in the region. “Today, visitors from…
·Baltimore, United States
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At Cadillac Mountain, a missing Wabanaki marker and the fight over what national parks should tell
Signs and exhibits about slavery, climate change, and Native Americans have been removed from national parks across the country as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to eliminate what it calls disparaging material
·New York, United States
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