"Dangers of the Mail" mural to be removed?

My wife heard a snippet on the radio about a controversy surrounding a 1930s WPA mural at the EPA headquarters in Washington. She said it had something to do with naked people and Native Americans, so I'm guessing it's this painting. What I don't know is whether or not some people are trying to get the painting removed because it has naked people in it, or for the racist depiction of Native Americans.

Here's a 2000 Washington Post article about the painting, called "Dangers of the Mail," painted in 1937 by Frank Albert Menchau, Jr.

 2005Website Projects Employment Epamural Epamuralpics Dangermail-1Check out the big mural on the fifth floor, a friend told Myrna Mooney one day last August, shortly after Mooney and fellow employees of the Environmental Protection Agency moved into new headquarters in the Federal Triangle complex. A Native American from the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, Mooney was "flabbergasted" by what she saw:

Splashed across a 13-foot-wide canvas in the Ariel Rios Building was a graphic scene of Indians attacking and scalping white people. Called "Dangers of the Mail," the 1930s-era painting included half a dozen naked white women being assaulted by Indians and an Indian stabbing a white man in the back.

"It portrays Indians as cowardly. It's an insult," said Mooney. "When you come from the reservation, these kinds of images make you physically ill."

And here's a 2005 story from Indianz.com:

A handful of government murals that depict Indian people in an unfavorable light will undergo a review to determine whether they are appropriate to display, a federal agency announced on Wednesday.

After years of complaints by Indian employees and their advocates, the General Services Administration initiated the review of six murals at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. The GSA plans to take input from the public under the National Historic Preservation Act because the artwork is more than 70 years old.

Here's what stands in front of the mural today (From PDF file):

Dangers of the Mail Block

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