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New street signs with Massachusett language translation will be installed in East Cambridge
Boston Globe ^ | December 6, 2023 | By Molly Farrar

Posted on 12/08/2023 4:02:36 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

After more than 2,500 Cambridge residents made their voices heard during the participatory budget vote in 2021, more than 70 new street signs in East Cambridge will include translations into the native Massachusett language.

Sage Carbone, a Cambridge resident, proposed the participatory budget item to add traditional Native translations to city signs, along with commemorating Native American sites in Cambridge with markers.

“Any representation is missing,” she said. Carbone is a member of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island with Nipmuc, Massachusett ancestry.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 2depressing4words; cambridge; indians; isthisthebee; language; massachusetts; signs; translations
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To: ConservativeStatement

I am originally from the US Southwest yet I have never seen an “ALTO” stop sign anywhere except in Mexico.


21 posted on 12/08/2023 4:20:57 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ConservativeStatement

VIRTUE
SIGNALLERS
USE
HIGHBEAMS


22 posted on 12/08/2023 4:21:54 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Dad was from New Bedford. I’m still smiling imagining his Boston’ese :-))


23 posted on 12/08/2023 4:22:43 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: SamAdams76

Though there were supposedly horses indigenous to north america a few thousand years ago post Colombian ‘Indians’ didn’t have horses until they were brought over from Europe.


24 posted on 12/08/2023 4:24:23 PM PST by posterchild
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To: ConservativeStatement

What languages does the Center for Marxist Studies have on their sign? (are they still in Central Square?)


25 posted on 12/08/2023 4:25:04 PM PST by posterchild
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To: ConservativeStatement

The crazy continues. Yet another reason to be glad I fled Cambridge in 1977, never to return.


26 posted on 12/08/2023 4:25:59 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: posterchild

Yes but that is how most Americans experienced the Indians during our early days. They were on horseback.


27 posted on 12/08/2023 4:26:51 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,508,933 Truth | 87,456,907 Twitter)
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To: x

Probably saw a YouTube video of the ‘70’s “Keep America Beautiful” commercial with the fake Indian, cementing her mental illness. Thanks, Internet.


28 posted on 12/08/2023 4:27:08 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Ahqeesh”

Those ‘Baby Names’ books must have a hard time keeping up.


29 posted on 12/08/2023 4:28:28 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with bi ♂️, aka every man)
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To: rlmorel

My first take was they would change the street signs to read “No Pahking Zone”.


30 posted on 12/08/2023 4:30:25 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Now them injuns won’t be speeding and running stop signs.


31 posted on 12/08/2023 4:30:27 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: ConservativeStatement

translate this

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32 posted on 12/08/2023 4:30:37 PM PST by Muhammy
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To: monkeyshine

Heh, me too, but...they don’t talk like that in Cambridge!


33 posted on 12/08/2023 4:33:16 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: ConservativeStatement




(Ooops!!!)

34 posted on 12/08/2023 4:34:04 PM PST by Songcraft ( )
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To: ConservativeStatement
Carbone is a member of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe

Didn't know the tribe let in Italians.

35 posted on 12/08/2023 4:35:48 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: SamAdams76

Horses are a European import, like the honey bee. America once had undomesticated horses, but the illegal immigrants from China ate them all. These days, illegals should make themselves useful and get to work eating those Canada geese.


36 posted on 12/08/2023 4:37:01 PM PST by Reeses
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hey Boston, just give up on this thing called America then if it causes you so much grief because of street names.


37 posted on 12/08/2023 4:40:32 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What about liquor store signs? Is “Packie” Massachusett or are they just the owners?


38 posted on 12/08/2023 4:41:39 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

There is a price to be paid for being stylish.


39 posted on 12/08/2023 4:41:47 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: Albion Wilde

He’s the Indian crying at the garbage dump.


40 posted on 12/08/2023 4:42:30 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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