Numerous display panels at Sitka National Historical Park describing historical actions against Alaska Natives have been flagged as “concerning language” needing review under President Donald Trump’s order to remove “anti-American” ideology from sites nationwide, according to an internal U.S. Interior Department database leaked last week.

A “First Peoples Panel” at the park’s Russian Bishop’s House, for example, contains the following language that was flagged as concerning: “Europeans, including Russians, brought warfare, enslavement and deadly diseases like smallpox that decimated the population. As of 2021, less than 18 percent of Alaska’s population identifies as Alaska Native.”

The leak was first reported on March 2 by The Washington Post, which confirmed the database’s authenticity with federal employees. At least two public websites have posted the full database and related material.

An index of the material is in an 880-line spreadsheet, with many of the lines containing multiple specific items flagged.

Among the other panels flagged at the Russian Bishop’s House is one titled “Tlingit Aani,” because of a land acknowledgement that reads: “This house stands on the unceded territories of the Sheet’la Lwaan.”

Also flagged in the panel is the statement: “The history of this land includes a series of actions that attempted to remove the Sheet’ka Kwaan from their land, culture, and language which includes forced relocations under both Russian and American governance.”

Staff at the Sitka National Historical Park did not respond to a request on March 6 by the Juneau Independent for comment. An Interior Department spokesperson, in a statement to Reuters about the leaked database, said, “The narrative being advanced is false and these draft, deliberative internal ​documents are not a representation of final action taken by the department.”

A report by The Hill states flagged material outside Alaska includes information related to Emmett Till, the Black child who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955; a children’s booklet stating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee “promised to … protect the United States” but later “broke his promise and fought for slavery;” climate change references at Glacier National Park; and materials about Native Americans and climate change at Arches National Park in Utah.

No other Alaska sites appear in the database of flagged material, with entries for locations such as Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve and Denali National Park and Preserve declaring “nothing to report.”

Additional panels on display at the historical park in Sitka that were flagged for review include the timeline statement: “1904: Territorial Governor John Brady ordered the Tlingit to hold the so-called ‘last Great Potlatch.’ This began a period when American officials begin pressuring the Tlingit to stop traditional ceremonies. However, many of the Tlingit people continued practices in secret.”

Another panel flagged for review said: “1912: A group of Alaska Natives in Sitka establish the Alaska Native Brotherhood to fight discrimination against Alaska’s Southeast people.”