4/9/2024 0 Comments Vermont abenaki ancient glyphs![]() The settlers applied their values with a broad, deliberate brush in a sociopolitical process known as displacement and assertion. During the preceding wars the Abenaki had aligned with New France to the north, so when the British won, they fancied the territory that eventually became Vermont a clean slate, ready for new names. The newcomers colonized the landscape in a startlingly rapid wave. We think of Vermont as an old state: it had been settled for about 150 years when the trail was completed.īut the time since the settling of Vermont, and the time since completion of the Long Trail, are short compared with the tenure of the native Algonquian-speaking people-primarily Abenaki-who were forced aside when settlers, primarily British, flooded in after the last so-called French and Indian War. We think of the Long Trail as old: it was finished in 1930. It feels fitting that the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the United States traverses the Green Mountains, which, at one billion years of age, are among the oldest mountains in North America. Doug Herman, Denali and America’s Long History of Using (or Not Using) Indian Names ![]() The land is eternal it owns us, we do not own it. Photo by Glen Gilchrist.Īs Europeans settled on the continent and early pioneers explored, they often gave places new names commemorating the Founding Fathers and other important Americans… have viewed such commemorative names as inappropriate: humans are too small, too fleeting and insignificant to have places named for them. ![]() It was previously posted here on October 17, 2019. This article was written by Rich Holschuh and previously appeared in the Fall 2019 Long Trail News.
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