Statement Regarding UVM and Eugenics
Statement Regarding UVM and EugenicsE. Thomas Sullivan, PresidentJune 21, 2019 As we close this academic year, I wish to refer […]
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Statement Regarding UVM and EugenicsE. Thomas Sullivan, PresidentJune 21, 2019 As we close this academic year, I wish to refer […]
Continue ReadingThe article was originally published on March 26, 2022 and is republished here with permission from the author Jeanne Morningstar […]
Continue ReadingSince I was small, the Missisquoi River helped to raise me. I heard stories of our sacred places and lived […]
Continue ReadingThe process of getting to know Native people can be especially complicated in New England, which has some of the longest colonial histories on the continent. Since most eastern tribal nations historically dealt with the colonies rather than with what eventually became the U.S. federal government, many remain…
Continue ReadingPublished with permission from the Brattleboro Historical Society. In 1828 the Brattleboro publishing company of Holbrook and Fessenden produced “A […]
Continue ReadingBy Mali Obomsawin Cluelessness about Native people is rampant in New England, which romanticizes its Colonial heritage. In college, I […]
Continue ReadingThe Indigenous Abenaki people of the Northeast have, for generations, been subjected to both genocidal attacks (killing of people) and ethnocidal attacks (killing of culture) by colonial settlers and their descendants. In the colonial era, these threats took the form of murderous attacks on families and villages in…
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