Harvard Square blog from Gina

Although the first location that comes to mind when thinking about slavery is the south, New England and specifically the Harvard Square has ties to slavery. The Harvard museum holds the remains of at least 19 enslaved people and about 7,000 Native American Indians. The Crimson quoted in the draft reports introduction that the human remains "were obtained under the violent and inhumane regimes of slavery and colonialism." This quote further explains Harvard's involvement in the immoral system of slavery. They were also quoted saying, "we know that that skeletal remains were utilized to promote spurious and racist ideas of difference to confirm existing social hierarchies and structures." In 1990 the museum was forced by law to return the remains to any of the current descendants, but the museum still holds 19 remains after that law.  Harvard museum holds remains of slaves - Chinadaily.com.cn https://nypost.com/2022/06/08/harvard-has-human-remains-of-7000-native-...

I decided to do my blog post on Anne Hutchinson who lived from July 20th 1591 in England until September of 1643. Anne Hutchinson was married to William Hutchinson (a merchant) who she later moved to the Massachusetts bay area with. She began to organize meetings where she preached her beliefs about the Massachusetts Puritans teaching and salvation. Puritanism in the 16th and 17th century was the believed that the reformation of the church under the control of Queen Elizabeth I needed to be purified by simplifying and regulating the different forms of worship and Hutchinson had different beliefs and means of reaching God. Ministers and magistrates began to attend her meetings as her theological views began to spread. The same beliefs that later got her banished from the Massachusetts bay area. This is the reason that she left Boston. After her banishment, she moved to Rhode Island where her husband ended up passing away and then later settled in New York where Indians killed her and al...

 When first looking at the Massachusetts state flag the first thing that stuck out to me was the man holding a bow an arrow. When reading about the history of the Massachusetts tribal life it mentioned how the men were responsible for fighting, fishing, hunting, mining, and whaling. The bow an arrow in the mans hand could represent the main source of food for the tribe which was crucial for the tribes survival. However, this differs from Massachusetts themselves because it's tribal life was a matriarchal one, meaning that the women were the head of the tribe so I would assume they would be represented instead of the men. If I could memorialize the first occupants of Cambridge I would do so by having a statue of William Apess because he played a major role in the in the fight or urge of the New England Indian groups to seek the right to self-govern. I chose this because this idea is what later lead to the state of Massachusetts and having its own government.