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Village Erasing ‘Indian’ From Plaques

Trustees Erasing ‘Indian’ From Village Plaques By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It was a constituent that alerted Village Trustee MacGuire Benton to verbiage on historic markers at Council Rock, a Native American meeting place where the Susque- hanna River flows out of Otsego Lake. “I was shocked that I hadn’t noticed it previously,” he said. “The sign refers to Native Americans as ‘Indians’. It’s racially insensitive and incorrect, and it needs to be updated.” The signs,…

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