As the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal approaches on Oct. 26, organizers are seeking to temper the celebration with an acknowledgment of the waterway’s displacement of Native American communities.
Source: New York Times
New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial
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