indigenous peoples

Four centuries after white Europeans stepped off the Mayflower and onto America’s shores, some descendants of the colonists are wrestling with the complicated legacy of their ancestors amid a global racial reckoning. There is immense pride among those who can trace their families back to the passengers who boarded the ship in Plymouth, England, in 1620 to flee religious persecution…

The national debate over whether to keep or get rid of problematic monuments has arrived in Vermont’s Champlain Valley where a new educational effort is acknowledging the history of its indigenous peoples.