What started as an effort to remove a statue in Boscawen commemorating a woman who killed and scalped 10 Native American people in 1697 has evolved into a conversation about changing the site to better understand the broader conflict between ... .
The 731-page report, available on the AbenakiHeritage website, details the alleged family histories of five prominent Vermont-recognized Abenaki figures ... Some have one or two distant Indigenous ancestors, but none was Abenaki, the report says.
Abenaki leaders in Québec on Friday unveiled genealogical research that they say proves specific members of Vermont-recognized tribes have no native heritage ... “The individuals studied have no Abenaki ancestry.