A Texas county has mandated public libraries move a well-regarded children's book documenting the mistreatment of Native Americans in New England — Colonization and the Wampanoag Story — from the "non-fiction" section to "fiction." The decision was made after the government of Montgomery County, under pressure from right-wing activists, removed librarians from the process of reviewing children's books and replaced them with a "Citizens Review Committee."
A Texas county has mandated public libraries move a well-regarded children’s book documenting the mistreatment of Native Americans in New England — Colonization and the Wampanoag Story — from the “non-fiction” section to “fiction.” The decision was made after the government of Montgomery County, under pressure from right-wing activists, removed librarians from the process of reviewing children’s books and replaced them with a “Citizens Review Committee.” Colonization and the Wampanoag Story was “challenged” by an unknown person on September 10, 2024. The Committee responded by ordering that the book be moved to the fiction section of public libraries in Montgomery County by October 17, 2024, according to public records obtained by the Texas Freedom To Read Project shared with Popular Information.
The author of Colonization and the Wampanoag Story is Linda Coombs, a “historian from the Wampanoag Tribe.” Coombs spent three decades working at the Wampanoag Indigenous Program, an initiative to preserve the history of the Wampanoag people. The book is published by Penguin Random House, which describes the book as “[t]he true story of the Indigenous Nations of the American Northeast, including the Wampanoag nation and others, and their history up to present day.”
The move to reclassify Colonization and the Wampanoag Story comes after a controversial decision last March to remove librarians from the decision-making process when a children’s book carried by Montgomery County is challenged. Previously, there was an advisory committee comprised of five librarians and five community members. As a result of the change, the librarians were removed from the Committee, and the determinations of the new Committee, which consisted of five non-librarians, became binding.
I can’t wait for the nonfiction historical accounts of the FEMA deathcamps, or revised textbooks that accurately tell the story of how a devout group of Salem men saved the country from witches and witchcraft.
God damn I’m excited. Let’s go Texas, let’s get even stupider with it.
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I can’t wait for the nonfiction historical accounts of the FEMA deathcamps, or revised textbooks that accurately tell the story of how a devout group of Salem men saved the country from witches and witchcraft.
God damn I’m excited. Let’s go Texas, let’s get even stupider with it.
Fake news promised FEMA Camps staffed by Obama death panels if ACA passed.,…
ACA passed but these boomers are still around!
They don’t gotta burn the books they just… reclassify them?
Not nearly as catchy.
NPCs can’t cope with history…