Giving Meaning to Mountain Names

The just-released Vermont Ski + Ride Magazine Winter/Spring 2023 issue has an article on page 57 devoted to Abenaki cultural approaches through language. Featured are place-based linguistic relationships with peaks in the Green Mountain range, now well-known by other names in English through the overlay of colonization, and seen as recreational destinations for winter sports and summer hiking. The stories remain, however, and can be heard by those who seek to know these living mountain entities and engage in conversation with them. This story first appeared in the Green Mountain Club’s Long Trail News in October 2019 and was adapted for this new publication.