The statue of Hannah Duston in Boscawen won’t be going anywhere any time soon.

David Nagel, the Gilmanton Republican who filed a bill calling for the removal of the long-standing statue, drafted an amendment that completely overrides the original bill’s language and proposes an advisory council to create an interpretive site instead.

Duston, a colonial woman from Haverhill, Mass., was kidnapped in 1697 by indigenous Abenaki people …