As I read the Greenfield history in the Almanac published in the weekend paper, I was struck by the fact that our city’s history is described as starting with settlement by white colonizers. We are all learning more about the history of peoples inhabiting this area before Europeans came to these shores. Many of our local meetings now start with a land acknowledgement, mentioning the Nipmuc and Pocumtuc peoples and that we live on their unceded territories. It’s time for the history of Greenfield (and other municipalities) to be rewritten to honor these early inhabitants and the Indigenous peoples who live among us still.
Lynn Waldron
Greenfield