In September 2023, Linda Coombs published Colonization and the Wampanoag Story with Penguin Random House, about the Wampanoag people’s contact with Europeans. The book was categorised under ‘children’s nonfiction’. A year later, a citizen committee in Montgomery County, Texas, mandated public libraries to move Colonization and the Wampanoag Story from ‘nonfiction’ to ‘fiction’. After much national and international outcry, on 22 October 2024, the Montgomery County Commission reversed the categorisation, and the book was considered ‘nonfiction’ again.
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