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The University of Wisconsin-Stout is removing two paintings over concerns that they might have a "harmful effect" on Native American students, Wisconsin Public Radio reports. The historical murals show French fur traders paddling canoes alongside Native Americans. But university officials said the paintings remind Natives of "an era of their history where land and possessions were taken away."
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