Article 56F8E Statue of white woman holding hatchet and scalps sparks backlash in New England

Statue of white woman holding hatchet and scalps sparks backlash in New England

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Nick Fiorellini
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Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans

The statue is the earliest publicly funded monument to a woman in the US.

It stands in the out-of-the-way town of Boscawen, New Hampshire. It shows a woman holding a hatchet in one hand and a fistful of scalps in the other. Her name is Hannah Duston.

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