Editor’s Note: Since the initial publication of this story, NHPR has reported that citizens of a federally recognized Abenaki First Nation based in Canada say there is no evidence many members and leaders of two New Hampshire groups have Abenaki ancestry. An NHPR review of genealogies and other records also failed to support local leaders’ claims of Abenaki ancestry.
We’re sitting down with author Jay Atkinson to talk about his new book, ‘Massacre on the Merrimack’ - which takes on the Hannah Duston story.
This program was originally broadcast on 9/29/15.
GUESTS:
- Jay Atkinson – writing instructor at Boston University and author of several books, most recently Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston’s Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America.
CALLOUTS:
- Paul Pouliot - Sag8mo of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, and president of COWASS North America, Inc.
- Elaine Clow – librarian and secretary of the Boscawen Historical Society
