Rich Holschuh: Choosing understanding over competition

This commentary is by Rich Holschuh. He lives in Wantastegok/Brattleboro and serves as chair of the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs. He is a citizen of and cultural relations officer with Elnu Abenaki band, and is a co-director of the Atowi Project.
Professor David Massell’s opinion piece, “The awkward truth about Vermont’s Abenaki,” published in VTDigger on May 29, is itself a dismaying example of polemics masquerading as fact. As a University of Verm