A bronze Native American figure faces east with outstretched arms beside the Mohawk Trail. Installed in 1932, the monument was created by the Improved Order of Red Men and reflects an older, non-Native fraternal interpretation of Indigenous imagery, making its history more complicated than the striking roadside silhouette suggests.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Atlas Obscura