福克斯新闻数字频道探访曼哈顿这家博物馆后发现，其展品对乔治·华盛顿和美国早期历史持强烈批判态度
2026年9月15日 美国东部时间早上7:08 / 福克斯新闻
作者：罗伯特·施马德
得克萨斯州共和党众议员布兰登·吉尔和威斯康星州共和党众议员布莱恩·斯蒂尔剖析了史密森尼所谓的“觉醒”议程，回应了人们对该博物馆宣扬“文化马克思主义”的担忧。此次讨论强调了客观历史的重要性，并质疑纳税人资金是否应用于一个展示“反美国恐怖内容”的博物馆，呼吁更换领导层。
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纽约—— 福克斯新闻数字频道调查发现，曼哈顿的一家史密森尼博物馆对乔治·华盛顿、美国独立战争以及美国早年历史持尖锐批判态度，而那些使这一叙事复杂化的历史背景要么被省略，要么未得到重点展示。
此次调查正值史密森尼因美国历史展陈方式受到特朗普政府的严格审查之际。唐纳德·特朗普总统已下令审查该机构的展品和教育材料，旨在改变其政府所称的对美国历史过于负面的描述。
福克斯新闻数字频道于9月初参观了美国印第安人国家博物馆曼哈顿分馆，发现展品着重强调原住民社区遭受的破坏，却几乎未提及美国军事行动背后的冲突和事件背景。
博物馆“原住民纽约”展区中央附近有一处展陈，展示了华盛顿的肖像——与25美分硬币上的肖像类似——旁边的标签写着“城镇毁灭者”。
特朗普给史密森尼最后通牒：用开国元勋雕塑替换“怪异的现代主义作品”
纽约市美国印第安人国家博物馆的一处展陈。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）（福克斯新闻数字频道）
图片下方的文字介绍了“美军摧毁了40座易洛魁联盟（豪德诺索尼族）城镇并烧毁了他们的庄稼，居民四散逃亡”的历史，并提到“豪德诺索尼族人至今仍称乔治·华盛顿和所有美国总统为‘Hanadahguyus’。这个名字意为‘城镇毁灭者’”。
该展板并未提及导致此次军事行动的针对美国定居点的突袭行动，也未解释华盛顿下令发动进攻的原因。
美国国家公园管理局的一段摘录写道：“1778年，印第安人和美国效忠者在纽约和宾夕法尼亚边境发动破坏性突袭，美国军队因此摧毁了六大原住民部落的家园。这些突袭使美国大陆军队因失去粮食和兵源而陷入瘫痪，并通过摧毁边境定居点、俘虏平民制造了恐慌。”
此次展陈正值特朗普政府就史密森尼如何呈现美国历史展开更广泛争执之际。特朗普总统特别反对该机构据称试图将美国历史叙事“从美国建国历程和开国元勋，转向将国家描述为存在严重缺陷的产物”的做法。
史密森尼争端升级，特朗普政府发出严厉新警告
纽约市美国印第安人国家博物馆的一处文本展板。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
特朗普政府威胁要调整史密森尼的资金和联邦机构支持，敦促该机构改变其所谓的分裂或历史不准确的美国形象描述。
该博物馆的其他许多展品都采取了与华盛顿展陈类似的立场，强调美国定居者所谓的暴行，却淡化原住民的暴力行为。
一块标牌从原住民女性的视角讲述了1779年至1804年间易洛魁族的历史，称“她说，那时一切都很和平，直到白人开始他们的革命”。
而在1609年至1701年的大约100年间，易洛魁族为争夺动物毛皮资源与其他原住民部落发生了一系列冲突。
即便在特朗普政府当前与史密森尼产生争执之前，位于华盛顿特区的美国印第安人国家博物馆就因美国历史展陈方式引发过批评。
“近年来，我一直在记录‘身份认同博物馆’的演变……这类博物馆旨在肯定特定群体的诉求、展示其成就、增强其自豪感，”一位文化评论家2010年在《纽约时报》上写道，“华盛顿的美国印第安人国家博物馆是这类博物馆的先驱，它摒弃了西方学术，讲述自己的故事，以至于有部落庄重地将其最早的历史里程碑描述为：‘鸟儿教人们求雨。’”
法律专家呼吁彻底更换史密森尼领导层，因其“自我厌恶”的历史描绘：“这简直是恶语中伤”
纽约市美国印第安人国家博物馆正门。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
该评论家继续写道：“该博物馆披着浪漫主义的面纱，描绘了白人入侵之前一个异常和平、和谐、同质化的田园世界——这种叙事远不如旧自然历史博物馆曾提供的内容详实、有见地。”
展品确实提及了一些涉及原住民部落的冲突，但对施加于他们的暴力的描述远多于对引发冲突的事件的介绍。
该博物馆还设有面向中学生的在线资料目录，总体上秉持相同的编辑立场。
例如，教师被要求向学生播放一段视频，视频开篇就称“美国独立战争是一项极具破坏性和危险性的工程”。视频继而负面地塑造美国殖民者的形象，将他们称为入侵者和擅自占地者。
独家：史密森尼馆长在爆炸性听证会之后承认，她将历史视为“社会正义的工具”
唐纳德·特朗普总统已下令审查史密森尼的展品内容，正值美国建国250周年庆典前夕。（盖蒂图片社）
在多处涉及独立战争的展陈中，该展区将美国对原住民盟友的行动描述为极具负面色彩。
展区入口附近的一段视频明确声称，一名美国士兵枪杀了与美国结盟的特拉华族首领怀特·埃yes。然而，怀特·埃yes的死亡原因在历史上存在争议——博物馆仅在视频展板下方用较小字体说明了这一点，称怀特·埃yes“可能”被一名美国士兵谋杀。
该博物馆坐落于亚历山大·汉密尔顿美国海关大楼内，这座建筑曾用于征收贸易关税，以开国元勋、首任财政部长亚历山大·汉密尔顿的名字命名，以纪念其贡献。
历史学家时隔十余年首次参观后抨击史密森尼的激进主义转变：“完全变了样”
纽约市美国印第安人国家博物馆礼品店内的书架。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
游客在即将离开大楼前，会经过一家博物馆商店，店内有多本对美国历史持尖锐批判态度的书籍。例如，《美国原住民史》一书被醒目地摆放在货架上。
除其他内容外，该书批评美国人对宪法有着“邪教般的”执着，认为美国建立在白人至上和种族灭绝之上，并声称联邦政府至今仍在对原住民实施种族清洗。针对年轻读者的该书漫画改编版也有售。
货架上的其他书籍还包括《偷窃美国：美国历史中隐藏的原住民奴隶制》《美国的非裔-原住民史》、一本关于“双灵”性别认同的专著，以及一本关于美国总统乔·拜登提名的内政部长黛布·哈兰德的儿童绘本。
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Smithsonian’s dark take on America exposed: Washington dubbed ‘town destroyer,’ Revolutionary War ‘dangerous’
Fox News Digital visited the Manhattan museum and found exhibits highly critical of George Washington and early America
September 15, 2026 7:08am EDT / Fox News
By Robert Schmad
Reps. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and Bryan Steil, R-Wis., dissect the Smithsonian’s alleged ‘woke’ agenda, addressing concerns about the museum promoting ‘cultural Marxism.’ The discussion highlights the importance of objective history and questions taxpayer funding for a museum of anti-American horrors, calling for a change in leadership.
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NEW YORK —A Smithsonian museum in Manhattan presents a sharply critical account of George Washington, the Revolutionary War and America’s early years, while some historical context that complicates that narrative is omitted or given less prominent treatment, Fox News Digital found.
The findings come as the Smithsonian faces heightened scrutiny from the Trump administration over how it presents American history. President Donald Trump has ordered a review of the institution’s exhibits and educational materials as part of an effort to change what his administration says is an overly negative portrayal of the country’s history.
Fox News Digital visited the Manhattan branch of the National Museum of the American Indian earlier in September and found exhibits that emphasize the destruction suffered by Native communities while offering comparatively little context about the conflicts and events surrounding American military campaigns.
One display near the center of the museum’s “Native New York” exhibit features an illustration of Washington’s profile — similar to the one that appears on quarters — over a label that reads “town destroyer.”
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A display at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. (Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)((Fox News Digital))
The description underneath the image recounts how “American armies destroyed 40 Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) towns and burned their harvests while residents fled,” noting that “the Haudenosaunee still call George Washington and all U.S. presidents Hanadahguyus. The name means ‘town destroyer.’”
The panel does not mention the raids on American settlements that led to the campaign or explain why Washington ordered the attack.
“The American destruction of the Six Nations’ homelands came as a result of the destructive raids carried out by the Indians and American loyalists on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania in 1778,” an excerpt from the National Park Service reads. “The raids crippled the American Continental Army by depriving it of food and manpower and spread terror by destroying frontier settlements and taking prisoners.”
The exhibit comes as the Trump administration continues its broader dispute with the Smithsonian over how the institution presents American history. Specifically, the president has taken issue with the institution allegedly seeking to divert the telling of American history “away from America’s Founding and the Founders and towards a narrative of a deeply flawed creation of the country.”
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A text box at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. (Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)((Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital))
The administration has threatened changes to Smithsonian funding and federal-agency support as it presses the institution to alter what it describes as divisive or historically inaccurate portrayals of the country.
Many of the other exhibits in the museum take a similar line to the display on Washington, highlighting the alleged brutality of American settlers while downplaying the violence of natives.
One placard, recounting the history of the Iroquois between 1779 and 1804 from the point of view of a native woman, states that “it was peaceful, she said, until the white men began their revolution.”
For roughly 100 years, between 1609 and 1701, the Iroquois were engaged in a series of conflicts with other native tribes over access to animal pelts.
Even before the Trump administration’s current dispute with the Smithsonian, the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., attracted criticism over how it presents American history.
“In recent years, I have been chronicling the evolution of the ‘identity museum’ … designed to affirm a particular group’s claims, outline its accomplishments, boost its pride,” a cultural critic wrote for the New York Times in 2010. “The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington — a pioneering example of the genre — jettisons Western scholarship and tells its own story, leading one tribe to solemnly describe its earliest historical milestone: ‘Birds teach people to call for rain.’”
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The front entrance of the National Museum of the American in New York City. (Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)((Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital))
“Through a gauze of romance, that museum portrays an impossibly peace-loving, harmonious, homogeneous, pastoral world that preceded the invasion of white people — a vision with far less detail and insight than the old natural history museums once provided,” the critic continued.
The exhibits acknowledge some conflicts involving Native tribes but focus far more heavily on the violence inflicted on them than on the events that led to the fighting.
The museum also maintains a catalog of online materials geared towards middle school students that generally take the same editorial line.
Teachers, for instance, are instructed to show a video to students that opens by saying that “the American War for independence was such a disruptive and dangerous project.” It goes on to frame the actions of American colonists negatively, referring to them as trespassers and squatters.
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President Donald Trump has ordered a review of the Smithsonian’s content, ahead of the 250th birthday of the United State’s founding.(Getty)
In several displays dealing with the Revolutionary War, the exhibit portrays American actions toward Native allies in sharply negative terms.
A video display near the beginning of the exhibit claims, unequivocally, that an American soldier shot and killed Chief White Eyes, a Lenape chief who had allied with the Americans. The cause of White Eyes’ death, however, is historically contested — something the museum outlines in relatively small text underneath the video display, which states that White Eyes was “probably” murdered by an American soldier.
The museum is housed within the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, a building formerly used for collecting trade duties and named after the founding father to commemorate his role as the first secretary of the Treasury.
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A book shelf in the gift shop of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. (Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)((Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital))
Just before exiting the building, visitors pass a museum store where several books present sharply critical accounts of American history. “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States,” for instance, is displayed prominently on the store shelves.
Among other things, the book criticizes Americans for having a “cult-like” dedication to the Constitution, suggests that the United States was founded upon White supremacy and genocide and claims that the federal government is still carrying out ethnic cleansing against natives. A graphic novel adaptation of the text marketed toward younger readers was also available.
Other titles on display included “Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History,” “An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States,” a tome about the “two spirit” gender identity and a children’s picture book about Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s interior secretary.
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The Smithsonian did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.