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DENVER (AP) — The Civil War statue toppled by protesters outside the Colorado state Capitol over the summer will be replaced by a sculpture of a Native American woman mourning the atrocities of the Sand Creek Massacre.

The Capitol Building Advisory Committee voted 7-2 Friday in favor of the new sculpture after hearing from representatives of the tribes that suffered at Sand Creek 156 years ago, Colorado Public Radio reported.

"They were wiped out," Otto Braided Hair, of the Northern Cheyenne and a descendant of Sand Creek survivors, told the committee. "Their voices are no longer heard. Their...