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.

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

Texas county condemned for recategorizing book on colonization as fiction - ’To claim this book is fiction dismisses our perspective and history,’ one advocate said

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.

A Texas county has sparked outrage after moving a Native American history book to the fiction section of all public libraries.