The US city of Atlanta plans to install a statue of a Native American man atop a 34m column in its new Peace Park, where it will tower over statues of 17 civil rights icons, including Martin Luther King Jr.Developer Rodney Mims Cook Jr calls Chief Tomochichi "a co-founder of Georgia" who prevented massacres by warmly inviting British General James Oglethorpe to colonise his people's land in 1733."They became the closest of friends, initiating from the moment of Georgia's founding a practice of diplomatic negotiation and cohabitation," a narrator asserts in a video promoting the park.
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