It comes to mind that tribal dialogues with various divisions of the National Park Service, representatives of the Wampanoag and Narragansett Tribes of Gay Head and Rhode Island, respectively, agreed to “bury the hatchet” during an observance that was designed to do just that at Turners Falls in May of 2004.
A ceremony of reconciliation was performed in Turners Falls on that date and accepted by the National Park Service representatives and by the Town of Montague.
Currently, various delegate Indian groups have seemingly broken that “treaty” they were so desirous of obtaining by demanding the Turners Falls High School logo be changed or removed.
With that said, how can this so-called “bury the hatchet” resolution be valid? I wonder if the various objecting representative Indian factions would care to re-hash the Indian concern to change or remove the logo? Or are they (the Indians) ostensibly vetoing that agreement?
There is no intention to put blame on the National Park Service, but as we’ve heard and read numerous times by various Indian representatives or Indian groupies, “If any Indian-defined objection offends one Indian, it offends all Indians.”
Mike Cadran and Ed Gregory
Greenfield