Native American situation: Europeans (generations later, Americans) invade and progressively genocide and stomp out native population: Native population fought back where they could, violently so.
Civil War: Confederacy attempted to save its economically lucrative slave trade by splitting from the U.S., caused entire conflict over their perceived right to own people.
not comparable at all
I admire the native people's efforts in trying to keep migrating settlers out of their lands. It doesn't change the fact that those settlers and their descendents established a new government and new nation. Honoring the native leaders and other warriors through statues and other monuments is honoring enemy combatants of that new nation, which is now the US. That is a fact. Does that mean their statues should be taken down? I personally don't think so. I prefer to keep history publicly visible, even though there are a bunch of people (even here on CE) who basically said that statues don't mean much since you can just learn history from a book. I guess they changed their mind.
Wow.
That's almost unbelievably stupid. Even for ce. ---