A crew removes the Muffler Man statue on the corner of Third Street and Bemidji Avenue on Monday. The towering Native ...

The American Giants Museum opened in May 2024 in Atlanta, Ill., about 150 miles southwest of Chicago. Museum director Joel ...

A 20-foot-tall statue of a Native American figure is no longer standing in downtown Bemidji. The statue, which is ...

Mar. 31—BEMIDJI — A Native American statue that stood in downtown Bemidji for more than 61 years is on its way to a new home at the American Giants Museum along historic Route 66 in Illinois.

For two years, the Inter-Tribal League of American Indians have been trying to restore the statue, which is sitting in city storage.

An effort to get a Springfield music great memorialized as a statue to join other legendary community figures in the downtown ...

“Crime rates in American Indian and Alaska Native communities are unacceptably high,” US Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. “By surging FBI resources and collaborating ...

A month later, members of the Native American Coalition of the Quad Cities spoke out at the March 2022 council meeting, saying they wanted the statue to be completely removed due to its racist ...