Richard Witting: The shameful state of Native American affairs in Vermont 

This commentary is by Richard Witting of Burlington, a Vermont historian whose research focuses on Abenaki history and the related topics of eugenics, disability, and institutionalization in 20th-century Vermont. On Feb. 19, he spoke at the State House about the rewriting of Vermont’s eugenics history, a concern first acknowledged by the state’s attorney general in 2002. In 1759, Colonial troops burned the Abenaki village of Odanak (St. Francis). The people there at the time wer