'It’s high time for Massachusetts to strike this banner and do it proudly': Campaign in support of changing Massachusetts state seal, flag, and motto reaches Sheffield

'It’s high time for Massachusetts to strike this banner and do it proudly': Campaign in support of changing Massachusetts state seal, flag, and motto reaches Sheffield

Sheffield — Residents will vote on a resolution to support the change of the Commonwealth’s state flag and seal of at the town’s Annual Town Meeting this year. Though the resolution has only now reached Sheffield, indigenous leaders and activists throughout the Commonwealth have been working for over 50 years to make this change happen. Adopted in 1898, the seal and flag of Massachusetts depict a Native man holding a bow and arrow, the arrow poi…