Daniel Wu , The Washington Post; Texas county reverses classification of Indigenous history book as fiction
"CORRECTION
A previous version of this article incorrectly said that the book "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" detailed the Wampanoag tribe's encounters with Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims. The Wampanoag tribe never encountered Columbus. The book details encounters between the Wampanoag tribe and the Pilgrims, as well as encounters between Columbus and other Indigenous tribes. The article has been corrected...
Advocates and nonprofits, including the Texas Freedom to Read Project, Authors Against Book Bans and the American Indian Library Association, blasted the move in an open letter Wednesday asking the county to move the book back to the nonfiction collection. They were joined by Penguin Random House, which published the book by author and Indigenous historian Linda Coombs."
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