Why do we honor General Sherman?
On his Facebook wall, Dave Chamberlain writes:
Why is our Main street still named after a deplorable human who wantonly killed white and black and native American women and children, rounded up the native Americans at gunpoint and forced them into sterile lands?
I think it is an insult to our REAL native neighbors to the south and west of us. Native Americans lives must not Matter. NALMNM.
I know they renamed Fort Sherman into an unpronounceable American Indian name, so maybe don't go THAT far, but definitely need to pus...h Sherman into the history been of despots and rename Sherman Avenue in Coeur dAlene, Idaho
General William Tecumseh SHERMAN.
A quick look:
In these years, Sherman was outspoken in his belief that Indian policy should be set by the army, and that the aim of Indian policy should be to place the various tribes on reservations and force them to stay there. He once declared that all Indians not on reservations "are hostile and will remain so until killed off." As a member of the peace commission that negotiated the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, he was partly able to put his beliefs into practice, influencing the assignment of tribes each to its own separate and limited territory... -History Channel.
Question: Should we rename Sherman Avenue?
