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Three hundred years ago in the SE corner of what is now called Brattleboro, a fortified wooden structure was built by order of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, considered the “first permanent” British presence in what is now Vermont. The evening’s discussion will explore “the view from the shore”, focusing upon Native-centric aspects of this lasting incursion into long-established place-based relationships here in Sokoki Abenaki homelands.
Author and storyteller Randy Kritkausky, a federally enrolled tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who lives in Vermont, writes about awakening to Native American spiritual teachings and working with allies.
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An 1893 USGS topographical survey map shows an unobstructed line of sight from a spur of Pond Mountain (elevation about 1000 ft asl) on the Massachusetts-Vermont border, sighting north northwest to the site of Fort Dummer on the Kwenimskodak intervale. Richard Hazen’s report rings true.