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Water sprays from The Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hill Park in Helena. Members of the Legislature's Montana Indian Caucus have sent out a letter calling for the removal of the fountain, constructed by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1916 and the only monument to the Confederacy in the Northwest, according to Ken Robinson's book, "Montana Territory and the Civil War."
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Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, joined other members of the Legislature's Montana Indian Caucus sending a letter calling for the removal of the only Confederate monument in Montana in the wake of the violence of last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"White nationalists, neo-Nazis, alt-right, and any other groups that propagate hate, discrimination, violence and bigotry, have no place in our country. These groups dishonor the basic principles of equality on which this nation exists," Rep. Shane Morigeau, D-Missoula, wrote in the letter, signed by Sen. J...
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