For the second time in under two months, a statue dedicated to former President Abraham Lincoln statue was defaced in Chicago.
On Thanksgiving, a statue of a young Abraham Lincoln in Senn Park in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood was found covered in splotches of red paint together with the words “COLONIZER” and “LAND BACK,” the Chicago Tribune reported.
In accordance with the outlet, the statue also had “Dakota 38” written on it, in reference to the Dakota Sioux members who Lincoln ordered to be executed following the Dakota War of 1862.
Lincoln commuted the sentences of 264 Dakota fighters but sentenced 38 to be hung in Minnesota, which became the most important mass execution in US history.
The statue has resided within the outdoor park since 1997.
It was chiseled by sculptor Charles Keck, who also designed monuments of former Presidents Andrew Jackson and George Washington.
The same message was written across one other statue of the sixteenth president in Lincoln Park, roughly six miles away from Senn Park, on Oct. 11.
The vandals, who remain unidentified, allegedly wrote, “Dethrone the colonizers,” “Land back!” and “Avenge the Dakota 38.”
The Chicago Tribune said the perpetrators also posted the names of the 38 Dakota men with the message “tear down the parable of Lincoln the nice liberator.”
The statue in Lincoln Park, called “Abraham Lincoln: The Man,” has been called one of the significant sculptures of Lincoln from the nineteenth century and was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1887 — 22 years after Lincoln’s death.
The Chicago police have yet to make any arrests.
For the second time in under two months, a statue dedicated to former President Abraham Lincoln statue was defaced in Chicago.
On Thanksgiving, a statue of a young Abraham Lincoln in Senn Park in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood was found covered in splotches of red paint together with the words “COLONIZER” and “LAND BACK,” the Chicago Tribune reported.
In accordance with the outlet, the statue also had “Dakota 38” written on it, in reference to the Dakota Sioux members who Lincoln ordered to be executed following the Dakota War of 1862.
Lincoln commuted the sentences of 264 Dakota fighters but sentenced 38 to be hung in Minnesota, which became the most important mass execution in US history.
The statue has resided within the outdoor park since 1997.
It was chiseled by sculptor Charles Keck, who also designed monuments of former Presidents Andrew Jackson and George Washington.
The same message was written across one other statue of the sixteenth president in Lincoln Park, roughly six miles away from Senn Park, on Oct. 11.
The vandals, who remain unidentified, allegedly wrote, “Dethrone the colonizers,” “Land back!” and “Avenge the Dakota 38.”
The Chicago Tribune said the perpetrators also posted the names of the 38 Dakota men with the message “tear down the parable of Lincoln the nice liberator.”
The statue in Lincoln Park, called “Abraham Lincoln: The Man,” has been called one of the significant sculptures of Lincoln from the nineteenth century and was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1887 — 22 years after Lincoln’s death.
The Chicago police have yet to make any arrests.
