As a friend of mine said when I Re-Tweeted that: OH HELLS YES.

That'll remind me never to fuck with New England women.

Dude, amazing story. I can barely walk three miles in a day, let alone 30.

Holy CRAP. I like how she went back and scalped them.

She has another claim to history: she's the earliest woman in the now-United States to be honored with a statue.

Oh, and you can buy a bobblehead of her.

This particular bobblehead sparked a little flap last year; it was issued at the same time as a Bobblehead of a NH chief, Passaconnaway, which some people saw as overly stereotypical of Native Americans. Together, the two bobbleheads rubbed people from the local Native American community the wrong way. Most links have expired but here are a few:

oops. links:

One employee has quit and another refuses to sell or handle bobblehead dolls sold by the New Hampshire Historical Society. One doll depicts an ax-holding Hannah Duston who, in 1697, escaped from Abenaki Indians by scalping her captors. The other doll is Chief Passaconaway who formed the Penacook Confederacy of more than a dozen tribes. The bobbleheads are considered historically inaccurate and insensitive to American Indians. "To have the New Hampshire Historical Society come out with a caricature of an Indian after all these years of us working on this issue ... is just staggering," said David Stewart-Smith, historian for the state's Intertribal Council. Bill Veillette, NHHS director, said that while the bobbleheads expose people to history, their real purpose is to raise money for the historical society. "If you want the product to sell, frankly, you have to use the most iconic image that people are used to," he said. Veillette also said he has no interest in consulting with American Indian Groups on such matters. "We wouldn't and we shouldn't," he said. "For an exhibition we should, absolutely ... but we run our store probably like everyone else ... You don't run it by the entire staff. You don't go out and consult with a bunch of people."

Union Leader editorial, with comments.

This blog post is interesting because it contains a picture of the Passaconaway bobblehead compared with an engraving of Passaconaway.

Other NH-history bobbleheads.