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The original research of The Vermont Eugenics Survey of the 1920s and ’30s led to institutionalization and to the Vermont Legislature legalizing involuntary sterilization for so-called defective citizens in 1931.
A University of Vermont official apologized for causing harm to state-recognized tribes through an event hosted by the school last spring.The event, held last April, featured Abenaki representatives from Odanak First Nation in Quebec. They reiterated their stance that Vermont’s state-recognized tribes have not provided genealogical or historical support showing they are Abenaki.
Indigenous people, together with other people of color, manage just 1% of what we now know as Vermont's farmland.
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. MONTPELIER â The Vermont Senate joined the House in passing a resolution apologizing for its role in the eugenics movement, in which so-called âdelinquentsâ and âdefectivesâ were institutionalized or sterilized. The policies targeted French Canadians, French-speaking indigenous Canadians, indigenous peoples and people of color, and disproportionately affected women. The Senate, rather than concur with the House version of the resolution, replaced it with a âstrike-allâ amendment and its own wording â...
An apology letter intended to acknowledge Vermont's role in a program that sought to sterilize certain Vermonters deemed "degenerates" is seeing the light of day in the state legislature. A joint resolution "sincerely apologizing and expressing sorrow and regret" to Vermonters impacted and harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices was approved unanimously by the House of Representatives Wednesday. Before final approval and recognition, the bill must be passed by the Senate. Eugenics programs of the twentieth century sought "racial purity" using forced sterilization of In...