Too long of a racist tradition to change, says Dan Snyder? Earlier a 87 year old tradition, of displaying this statue in DC was abandoned when it was recognized that it was racist. Rep. Usher Burdick, Republican of North Dakota made sure it will "be ground into the dust and scattered to the four winds." "The American Indian was no worse than some of our own ancestors, and there is no more reason to memorialize his misdeeds than there would be to set up a monument to the witch burners of Salem."