Wheaton Rewords Plaque Calling Indigenous People ‘Savage’

Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian college in Illinois, will reword a plaque that refers to Indigenous people as “savage Indians,” Religion News Service reported. The plaque honors a group of missionaries, including several Wheaton alumni, who were killed in 1956 while proselytizing to the Waorani people in Ecuador. The plaque, which hangs in the college chapel, was given to the college in 1957.