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Trump’s Crackdown On ‘Negative’ History At National Monuments Faces Sabotage By Counter-Protest
- On June 13, 2025, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered signs at all NPS sites asking visitors to report negative history via QR codes.
- Trump’s March 2025 executive order prompted Burgum’s May 20 directive to revise or remove negative content at federal sites, targeting historic narratives and sites like Sand Creek and Amache.
- Forbes reviewed 274 comments, mostly praising parks and rangers, with few supporting the administration’s whitewashing goals, according to Rick Williams.
- Resistance Rangers and visitors taped over snitch signs at sites like Amache and Sand Creek, flooding feedback portals and protesting efforts to whitewash history.
- By September 17, 2025, all targeted content must be removed, risking closures at underfunded sites like Amache and Sand Creek amid ongoing efforts to whitewash history.
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New Trump policy asks national park visitors to flag 'negative' content. They're writing compliments to park rangers instead
The Trump administration invited visitors to report “negative” perspectives on American history. Visitors have been using the same portal to show support for their favorite parks.
Hartford Courant
Signs posted at National Park Service sites seen as threats to ‘whitewash’ dark side of history
Rick Williams, the leader of an American Indian group called People of the Sacred Land, reacted with disbelief this month upon learning signs were posted at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado that critics are taking as a threat to whitewash history. The signs, which were posted June 13 at all National Park Service sites by order of Interior Secretary Doug Bergum, begin innocuously by asking visitors to downlo…
Trump’s Crackdown On ‘Negative’ History At National Monuments Faces Sabotage By Counter-Protest
National Park lovers have flooded a new comment forum with praise for park staff and their telling of America’s often complex history after calls from activists and even rangers to “spam this form.”
Signs posted at National Park Service sites seen as threats to ‘whitewash’ dark side of ...
Rick Williams, the leader of an American Indian group called People of the Sacred Land, reacted with disbelief this month upon learning signs were posted at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado that critics are taking as a threat to whitewash history. The signs, which were posted June 13 at all National Park Service sites by order of Interior Secretary Doug Bergum, begin innocuously by asking visitors to downlo…
The Fort Morgan Times
Signs posted at National Park Service sites seen as threats to ‘whitewash’ dark side of Colorado history
Rick Williams, the leader of an American Indian group called People of the Sacred Land, reacted with disbelief this month upon learning signs were posted at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado that critics are taking as a threat to whitewash history. The signs, which were posted June 13 at all National Park Service sites by order of Interior Secretary Doug Bergum, begin innocuously by asking visitors to downlo…
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