"The learning edge for me in this book was telling a more complete story about the European arrival and colonization of the United States and the Americas."
The more history Williams read, the more he felt that it was wrong to have a conversation about reparations without acknowledging the history of American Indians in Minnesota.
In 2019, some Republican legislators were upset that the Historical Society had added temporary signs reading "Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote" and threatened to cut state funding to the nonprofit.