Petitioners Condemn Transfer of Contested Roosevelt Monument to North Dakota

More than 140 artists and professors have signed a petition calling on New York City officials to stop the relocation of a contested statue of Theodore Roosevelt that long resided at the American Museum of Natural History, claiming that its new location in North Dakota would put it on land that was seized from Indigenous peoples.
The bronze statue depicts Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by Black and Indigenous figures that are positioned beneath him. Activist groups have deemed the statue r