HeyJaredRobert Forrant
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Lowell Bicentennial: Greater Lowell Native American history (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: Former UMass Lowell Professor Robert Forrant wrote this column in conjunction with Deirdre Hutchison, an academic advisor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Honors College. She has a 2023 degree in history from the university and a research focus on the Indigenous presence in Lowell. Have you ever wondered how the Merrimack River got its name? For millennia, the Merrimack River and the fertile lands along its banks shaped the settlement patterns and lives of Indigenous peop
Lowell Bicentennial: The world comes to Lowell (opens the original)
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The nation is 250 years old, and Lowell is 200. Immigration is central to their stories. Summarizing this history in a single essay is perhaps foolish, but I will try, using the words of our first and second presidents for inspiration. In 1783, George Washington said this about the subject at hand. “America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and
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