Easthampton ready to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
Easthampton Municipal Building, 50 Payson Avenue GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 3/2/2021 7:04:52 PM
EASTHAMPTON The city may soon join a wave of communities around the nation in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, with the City Council set to vote on a resolution to make the change at its Wednesday night meeting.
If the resolution passes, Easthampton will become the third community in Hampshire County to make the change. The anticipated vote will follow a public hearing.
Councilors Owen Zaret and Salem Derby worked with representatives from local tribes, including the Massachusett and Wampanoag tribes and Nipmuc Nation, Zaret said. Mahtowin Monroe of United American Indians of New England providing language for the resolution, and the Massachusetts-based Italian Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day called for the city to change the holiday.
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On Whose Stolen Indigenous Lands Do You Live and Work? Where common memory is lacking, where people do not share in the same past, there can be no real community. Where community is to be formed, common memory must be created.
People increasingly ask one another, as not to misgender, “what are your pronouns?”
We rarely ask one another though, “Upon whose stolen tribal lands do you now live and work?” “Upon whose stolen tribal lands have you purchased?” Who knows the answer? If not, why not? And who considers these questions significant?
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State calls for comment on roundabout at Northampton site where artifacts found
Looking south at the intersection of North King Street (Rt. 5), left, and Hatfield Street, right, in Northampton, where a roundabout is planned. Photographed on Thursday, June 25, 2020. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Modified: 12/17/2020 7:03:14 PM
NORTHAMPTON The state is taking public comment on the construction of a roundabout that’s planned for the intersection of North King Street and Hatfield Street and that would go through a site where artifacts estimated to be at least 8,000 years old were found.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation filed an environmental notification form with the Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs on Dec. 14.