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Statues to hatchet-wielding colonist reconsidered in New Hampshire, Massachusetts Critics say the story of Hannah Duston was first used as propaganda against Native Americans in New England and then served the same purpose as the U.S. expanded west in the 1800s. By PHILIP MARCELOAssociated Press Share A statue of Hannah Duston, dated 1879, stands in the Grand Army of the Republic Park in Haverhill, Mass., meant to honor the English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American ...

AP Photo/Steven Senne The fierce monuments honor an English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American captors after the gruesome killing of her baby. But the statues to Hannah Duston — one in Massachusetts where she grips a hatchet and another in New Hampshire where she clutches a bundle of scalps — are being reconsidered amid the nationwide reckoning on racism and controversial public monuments. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking...

Philip Marcelo A detail of a statue of Hannah Duston, dated 1879, shows a hatchet in Dustons hand, in the Grand Army of the Republic Park, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Haverhill, Mass., meant to honor the English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American captors after the gruesome killing of her baby. But the statue in Haverhill, and another of Duston in New Hampshire, are being reconsidered amid the nationwide reckoning on racism and controversial public monumen...