“I think it’s high time that you think of removing John Mason’s statue.” “I would really ask you to be very mindful of the viewpoints of all of your citizens and even those who may not have been citizens but are indeed the original possessors of the land on which we live,” she said. Sinha recommended removing Mason’s life-size marble sculpture from the facade of the Capitol, which was built in 1878 as a memorial to the Civil War and the founders of the state. That is one of the common misconceptions in this debate.” Taking down statues do not erase history. “Statues commemorate certain aspects, certain people in our history. “Statues do not preserve history,” said Mainisha Sinha, another UConn historian who favors removing the Mason sculpture. The native American groups had also submitted written and video testimony in advance. Representatives of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation were joined by speakers from the Mohegan Tribe and the Eastern Pequot Tribe in supporting the removal or Mason’s statue, possibly for public display elsewhere. The real story of this violent assault on indigenous culture involves much more than Mason alone.” Our present moment has become a time of reckoning with these painful realities.
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“That past is filled with injustice, pain, inequity and violence. “As state historian, I believe history and the future are both best served by embracing the complex realities of Connecticut’s past rather than by simplifying or erasing them,” he said. Grasso that was created after her death in 1981. Instead of removing the 3,000-pound statue from the Gothic niche three stories above the north entrance to the Capitol, Woodward suggested adding more tribal representation to the nearly two dozen historic state leaders, all white men except for the statue of Gov.