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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

The 1906 statue of Ensign John Robert Monaghan stands at the corner of Monroe Street and Riverside Avenue, commemorating the death of the Spokane man while serving in the Samoa Islands in 1899. A plaque describing his death has drawn protest for depicting Samoans as savages.

Jed Conklin / The Spokesman Review

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