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ALT GM Eng greeting Governor Healey outside Green Line train.
ALT Governor Healey at press conference inside North Station.
ALT Governor Healey shaking hands with a transit worker.
ALT Streetcar Scene by John Wilson, 1945
ALT A 1639 map of eastern Massachusetts depicting a network of natural waterways used as travel routes by Indigenous people and English settlers. Above the map reads: Indigenous Routes: Four centuries ago, English colonists did not arrive at the head of Massachusetts Bay to lands devoid of existing settlement or transportation corridors. The Massachusett people and other tribes in the region utilized natural waterways in combination with ancient footpaths, known as "traces." European settlers built upon existing networks of canoeable waters, portages between waterways, and countless miles of traces. To the right of the map: This 1639 map by William Woods was first published in 1634, just four years after the Massachusetts Bay Company established Boston on the Shawmut peninsula. It depicts a network of of natural waterways, which were the earliest and most accessible travel routes for both Indigenous people and the English colonists who were trying to claim the territory for their own.
ALT Poster for the event, on the left in purple text "MMIWP Resource Map Launch Party" location details in green (available via the registration link in this tweet) and information about the event in red text (contained in this tweet). On the top right is an image of four people with signs held across their bodies and in the background is a encompassing digital circle.
