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  • City of Boston to lift American Indian ban

    05/19/2005 8:41:57 PM PDT · by SmithL · 12 replies · 450+ views
    AP ^ | 5/19/5
    BOSTON - The Massachusetts Legislature on Thursday repealed a 330-year-old law that barred American Indians from entering Boston and has long irked area tribes - even though it hasn't been enforced. Both the House and the Senate voted to strike down the 1675 law passed during King Philip's War between colonists and area Indians, and that has remained on the books ever since. Activists and Indian groups have been trying for years to scuttle the law. Boston Mayor Tom Menino filed a petition last fall to dump it, and the city council passed it. But the legislature didn't act until...