Swarthmore removes professor's name from hall over Native American burial excavation

Native American remains were excavated, removed from burial site, displayed on campus, and their final disposition remains unknown.

At Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, the name of a nineteenth-century biology professor has been quietly removed from a building he graced for nearly nine decades — not as an act of forgetting, but as a belated acknowledgment of harm done to the Lenape people whose burial site he disturbed in 1899. The college's reckoning with Spencer Trotter's excavation of Native American remains and his promotion of racial hierarchies reflects a wider cultural struggle over what institutions owe to the wounded past. Whether renaming a building constitutes genuine accountability or merely rearranges the fu

Swarthmore removes professor's name from hall over Native American burial excavation

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