It's Not Just Columbus

As the mayoral commission hears from the public in each borough about what to do about some of the controversial statues and monuments around the city, Betty Lyons, president of the American Indian Law Alliance and citizen of the Onondaga Nation, part of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, wants to be sure that they look beyond the Christopher Columbus and the Confederacy to statues like the one outside the American Museum of Natural History featuring Teddy Roosevelt on horseback.