She was kidnapped, her infant child was murdered and she was forced to march 100 miles into the wilderness. When her captors were asleep, she killed nine of them and escaped, taking two of her fellow hostages with her.

So how is Hannah Duston the bad guy?’

Because it’s Columbus Day and/or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and that means it’s time to denounce evil Europeans for the colonial oppressors that they are.

The details of Duston’s story, which can be found on a monument in Boscawen, are fairly straightforward. According to multiple accounts, including the Encyclopedia Britannica and contemporaneous reports , Dunston’s family home on the banks of the Sawmill River in Haverhill was attacked by members of the local Abenaki tribe in 1697, allegedly whipped up by the French during King P

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