His statue is among scores across the country, Native people say, that have been created РІР‚Сљunder the white gazeРІР‚Сњ - Indians as imagined by white people. In Wissahickon Park stands a giant, stereotypical statue of Lenape leader Tedyuscung, complete with a Western Plains headdress not generally worn in the East. But local Native Americans say the departure of one statue is only a beginning, the start of a long-overdue reckoning over the ways Indians are portrayed and regarded - and what should happen next to address the past and future.Р”Р„cross the Philadelphia region, images of Native people are literally embedded in the walls, and reminders of their mistreatment literally in the stolen ground underfoot. Mayor Jim Kenney wants the Art Commission to approve the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue from Marconi Park. РІР‚СљThis stuff is just everywhere.РІР‚СњР”Р„cross the United States, the Black Lives Matter protests against racism and police violence have also ignited new discussions and demands over the use of Native images, symbols and mascots, and the future of monuments to men who harmed and killed indigenous people. РІР‚СљYou see these things every single day,РІР‚Сњ said Mach, 33, a University of Pennsylvania doctoral student who studies how Native Americans are represented in museums. He was an architect of the infamous РІР‚СљWalking Purchase,РІР‚Сњ a scheme in which he and others swindled the original Lenape inhabitants out of perhaps a million acres of land in 1737. What many people donРІР‚в„ўt know - but she does, as a scholar and activist of DinР“В©, or Navajo, descent - is that the squareРІР‚в„ўs namesake, James Logan, was not just a colonial statesman and Philadelphia mayor. When Stephanie Mach leaves her Center City home, she often passes the Swann Memorial Fountain, with its three bronze Native American figures, in the heart of Logan Square.

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