At Mesa Verde National Park, a trailside sign invites visitors to gaze across the canyon at a stone-masonry tower on the neighboring Ute Mountain Ute Reservation.
The sign describes the history of the Ute people, a Native American tribe that traditionally migrated seasonally between the mountains and the valleys of their homelands, which encompassed nearly all of modern-day Colorado and Utah.
It recounts the impact of settlers on the Ute people during Western expansion and how the U.S. government established a reservation system that reduced the tribe’s territory to only a sliver of its ancestral lands.
The sign is among the hundreds of items at national parks across the country that park staff have flagged for review — and possible removal or modification — by President Donald Trump’s administration in response to orders to purge parks of “improper partisan ideology” and accounts that “disparage” Americans.
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