It’s Time To Revisit Use Of Word ‘Indian’ On Plaques, Statues – All Otsego

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VILLAGE BOARD CONCLUDES:

It's Time To Revisit

Use Of Word 'Indian'

On Plaques, Statues

The Cooperstown Board of Trustees voted to reach out to the state Department of Education to update signage in Council Rock that refers to Native Americans as "Indians." (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTEGO.com

The Indian Grave marker also needs an update, the trustees said.

COOPERSTOWN – It’s time, Village Trustee MacGuire Benton said, to revise the Indian Grave and two plaques at Council Rock.

Benton

“The sign refers to Native Americans as ‘Indians’,” he said during the Village Board meeting this evening. “It’s racially insensitive and incorrect, and it needs to be updated.”

Trustee Richard Sternberg made the motion to reach out to the state Department of Education, which installed the signs as WPA projects in the 1930s, to update the language.

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