Linda Coombs, has been at the center of an effort in Texas to discredit her work about America from an indigenous perspective. In September, a citizen’s review committee directed Coombs’ 2023 book, “Colonization and the Wampanoag Story,

A Montgomery County committee caused an outcry after labelling “Colonization and the Wampanoag story,” a children’s Native American history book, as fiction.

The Texas review board that mandated public libraries move a book about the mistreatment of Native Americans to the "fiction" section has been suspended, as have all of its recent decisions, in response to widespread pushback.

A Texas county backtracked after widespread criticism when it said a children's book on Native American history in Massachusetts was fiction.

Coombs is a historian and author from the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah. She wrote children's books for a museum series that highlighted aspects of southern New English tribal cultures, according to Penguin Random House.

Local Texas officials are facing intense scrutiny from community members, after they learned about a vote to label a children's book on Native American history as fiction. Native American historian Linda Coombs' book "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" was shelved as fiction in Montgomery County public libraries Oct.