Join us for "Murder and Indigenous Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Vermont" at the Orwell Free Library.

Vermont is the traditional homeland of the Abenaki people, and current conversations about indigenous Vermont focus on Abenaki persistence on the land. This presentation, by cultural historian Jill Mudgett, tells another story about indigeneity in Vermont by focusing on a man from southern New England who arrived in Vermont during the late nineteenth century and was then murdered in the Vermont woods. Surviving archival documents of the murder and subsequent trial not only tell us what white Vermonters thought about indigeneity, but reveal much about Native agency, mobility, and presence on the land.

This lecture is part of our collaborative Keynote Speaker Series with the Platt Memorial Library and is sponsored by The First National Bank of Orwell.