“The town of Yarmouth has removed a 90-year-old cemetery plaque that referred to Native American people as “savage enemies.”

Yarmouth Town Manager Nat Tupper says he did not know the marker existed, but that once it was determined that the plaque was a historical marker and not a gravestone marker, it was “not a complex matter to simply unscrew it.”

“The historical marker was brought to my attention by members of the community who were preparing to make a presentation of Dawnland at the local library, and thought it was inconsistent with the message and intentions of today and values of today, and asked if I would remove it because the town owns the cemetery,” Tupper says.

The plaque was removed from the cemetery Feb. 7.”

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