Idaho tribes are helping to develop interpretive signs for two controversial murals at a historic courthouse.
The murals at the old Ada County Courthouse depict the lynching of an Indian man. They have long been controversial but they surfaced as an issue recently because the courthouse is being used as the temporary state Capitol until late 2009.
Lawmakers considered taking the murals down but decided on adding signs instead.
Representatives of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Shoshone-Bannock Nation and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes are helping develop the materials.
The murals were painted during the Depression era -- the same time as ones at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency that depict Indian men and women unfavorably.
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