[freeandfreezing]

How does translating the street signs of 1st through 8th street in East Cambridge have anything to do with Native Americans who lived in that area in the past? They didn't have those streets, and they didn't name paths by using numbers.

This sounds more like maintaining a great historical tradition of Cambridge - somebody's cousin runs a sign making company and they need money for their daughter's college next year. So the city definitely needs to spend $20,000 on signs nobody can read.

The real history lesson would be the back story behind who gets the money, and why the signs aren't in a language like Italian, Portuguese, or the language of one of the many groups of people who actually made that neighborhood.

[SamAdams76]

If the people of Cambridge really wanted to honor the Indians, they would all abandon their automobiles and mount horses. They would abandon their comfortable homes and live in teepees.

That I would like to see.

[boop]

I could be wrong, but I don't think the Indians had a written language.

Everything was handed down by oral tradition and stories told by elders to the young.

[Beowulf9]

Because there is such a big Indian population in Massachusetts:

Massachusetts by the numbers

- Native American population: 17,875
- Proportion of state’s population: 0.3% (#43 highest among all states)

A whopping 0.3%

[millenial4freedom]

I'm guessing it was a request from the Cambridge resident who happens to be Harvard Law School's first professor of Native American heritage: