Bangor to consider removing monument to Portuguese explorer who abducted Native Americans

Bangor could soon become the latest U.S. community to remove a monument celebrating a white man whose historical oppression of dark-skinned people has not received the same attention as his accomplishments.
On July 6, the City Council is set to discuss a proposal from the Penobscot Nation to remove the small concrete cross along the Bangor Waterfront that memorializes Estevan Gomez, a Portuguese explorer who may have been the first European to sail up the Penobscot River about 500 years ago.
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