CONCORD, N.H. —

State representatives will debate next year whether to tear down the Hannah Duston memorial in Boscawen.

The statue has been at the center of a heated debate for years.

Rep. David Nagel, R-Gilmanton, is filing legislation to remove the statue, which he said is offensive to Native Americans.

"There was probably some unfortunate circumstances that she faced. However, they were more global and affected Natives way more than they did European settlers," Nagel said.

Duston was a colonial Massachusetts woman captured along with her baby by the Abenaki people in 1697. As the story goes, her infant was killed, and Duston later killed and scalped 10 Abenaki before escaping.

"She was lost to history for almost 200 years, and in the mid-1800s there is this concept that we're mig

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