10/08/2021
We will be closed this upcoming Monday, October 11th, in celebration of Indigenous People’s Day
We are lucky and grateful to be able to spend the majority of our days outdoors enjoying the beauty of the land we live on, and it is both impossible and irresponsible to not reflect on the people from whom it was stolen. Growing up in Massachusetts, you are endlessly subjected to lessons in and school field trips to Plymouth Plantation (a problematic name for multitude of reasons) with barely a mention of the Wampanoag people beyond a very overly whitewashed version of what actually happened. You learn nothing of their history, customs, languages, and general way of life. Nothing about how they survived and thrived on this land for generations. Nothing about who they are as a people. Nothing about the variety of the tribes across all of Massachusetts and greater New England. Nothing beyond how they could serve the Pilgrim colonizers.
We can not know the things we don’t actively chose to know. Because of that and the systematic erasure of Native American history, it is on us to educate ourselves on the reality of how we came to be living on stolen land and what the ramifications have been for the people it was stolen from. Use this time to answer the questions that were never asked so we can better understand how we got to where we are and how we can move forward with the respect and equality that all humans deserve.
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