Hannah Duston

Over the past year, a committee has worked to envision the island’s future: a replacement state historic marker “to reflect a more nuanced version of the raid and massacre,” a new name more inclusive than the current “Hannah Duston Historic Site”, and interpretive signage that explains the park’s complex history.

Statues in Massachusetts and New Hampshire honoring an English colonist who took a hatchet to her Native American captors after the death of her baby are…

Editor’s Note: Since the initial publication of this story, NHPR has reported that citizens of a federally recognized Abenaki First Nation based in Canada…

Just as the Black Lives Matter movement inspired a re-consideration of Confederate statues, Native Americans are now calling for a closer look at the…

Editor’s Note: Since the initial publication of this story, NHPR has reported that citizens of a federally recognized Abenaki First Nation based in Canada…

Republican state representative Gene Charron of Chester has withdrawn a bill that would have changed the name of the Hannah Duston State Historic Memorial…