SPOKANE, Wash. — Mayor Nadine Woodward vetoed an ordinance that the Spokane City Council to review the removal of certain landmarks some communities feel are offensive.
5,408 miles away from Samoa on the other side of the world lies a statue of military officer John R. Monaghan. A huge monument to honour a man born in Washington and killed in Vailele. Monaghan was sent to Samoa during the second Samoa Civil War in 1899. What history books will tell you was a war of “Samoans against Samoans”, but what locals would remind you was a was a colonial tug of war to see who could annex these Pacific islands.
The CAC Community Outreach (CAC) started a letter petition to the Spokane City council members to remove the 1906 John R. Monaghan Statue near Monroe and Riverside.