Settling America ....

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

... was nothing more than stealing land. Who should be seen as heroes? Those stealing land, or those defending their homes? Should names of 'northern' Generals be wiped as those of 'southern' generals have been?

Founding father Gen. Anthony Wayne's legacy is getting a second look at Ohio's Wayne National Forest

A vigorous debate is under way over a U.S. Forest Service proposal to rename the 390 square-mile Wayne National Forest after Ohio's state tree, the buckeye.

apnews.com

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[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Personally, I'd prefer not name places or buildings after people at all.

 

[feralkid]

Jackson off the twenty...Stat!

 

[GodisanAtheist]

This is an especially complicated one thanks to the nature of Wayne's involvement in the area as well as the funded and armed native coalition that was working with British interests to stop US revolutionary forces.

It is both demeaning and infantalizing to say Wayne was the only "bad guy" in the region.

That said, it's not as though tribes want to have one of their leader's names in Wayne's place, they just want Wayne's name off, which is IMO fair.