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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Native American statue's placement in Atlanta reconsidered

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Atlanta’s leaders are rethinking plans to install a statue representing a Native American man lauded as a “co-founder of Georgia ”

The Chief Tomochichi statue was conceived as the centerpiece of a park celebrating civil rights-era heroes. Its placement is being reconsidered, however, now that city council members have a fuller understanding of historical facts about the Muscogee man who signed a 1733 treaty launching the Georgia colony, Councilman Michael Julian Bond told The Associated Press.

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