What’s In a Name? Sarah Galbraith in the Barre Times-Argus

“…On a ski near my home, it hit me: There is a history that stretches far beyond the relatively recent colonial settlement of Vermont, and I know little to nothing about it. Around that same day, I noticed a friend on Facebook was tagging her own ski outings with the location marker “ancestral lands of the Wabanaki Confederacy.” I wanted to know more and began looking around for a history lesson.

While I was doing this research, I learned Mount Mansfield, a mountain whose ridges, shoulders, saddles and summit I’ve gotten to know well through the years, has a different Abenaki name: Mozdebiwajo, or Moosehead Mountain. It felt odd to me we were calling it anything other than its original, indigenous name.”

Read Sarah’s exploration of these realities in her Weekend Magazine article here.