Paul Pepper: Ken Midkiff, 'The Surprising History of Sierra Club Founder John Muir'

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There's a movement happening this year in which monuments to controversial figures are being removed or suppressed at the request of those it offends. Local columnist/activist/environmentalist KEN MIDKIFF tells us about another one that you may not know about: Sierra Club founder John Muir, who was a "absolute racist." September 4, 2020

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Muir made these comments as a young man right after the Civic War. He encountered native tribes in Yosemite that had been devastated by the Mariposa Battalion murders decades earlier. Muir had a completely different take in later life when he actually spent time with intact tribes in Alaska when he went to the glaciers there. Context is vital to understanding any historical figure. The Sierra Club rightly said we should look at Muir's full story, but instead his life is now being reduced to things a naive and ill informed young man said while traveling through the south and when he first came to Yosemite.

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