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The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag is a cultural heritage group that claims descendancy from the Massachusett people, an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. [ 2 ] While they identify as a Native American tribe , they are unrecognized , meaning they are neither a federally recognized tribe [ 3 ] nor a state-recognized tribe .
Historic marker on Massachusetts Route 138 indicating the northern boundary of the Ponkapoag Plantation or settlement. Ponkapoag / ˈ p ɒ ŋ k ə p ɔː ɡ /, also Punkapaug, [1] Punkapoag, Ponkhapoag [2] or Punkapog, is the name of a Native American "praying town" settled in the late 17th century western Blue Hills area of eastern Massachusetts by persons who had accepted Christianity.
The Marine Air Terminal was LaGuardia Airport's original terminal for overseas flights. It was highly popular in the 1940s, when LaGuardia was the only major airport in the U.S. which offered regular flights to Europe. Traffic dropped drastically after the larger Idlewild Airport opened in 1948, and Clippers stopped serving the terminal in 1952.
LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) (/ l ə ˈ ɡ w ɑːr d i ə / lə-GWAR-dee-ə) – colloquially known as LaGuardia or simply LGA – is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, situated on the northwestern shore of Long Island, bordering Flushing Bay.
The Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established under the name "Praying Indians of Natick Mother Village Ut Ponkapog Kah Peantamoonk Otanash Yeshuatribal Council, Inc." in 1996. [3] They are based in Stoughton, Massachusetts. [3]
In 1970 Moswetuset Hummock was formally recognized and added to the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts. [3] The historic site is also recognized by the Native American descendants known as the Ponkapoag people. Moswetuset Hummock is located on East Squantum Street, the northern end of Wollaston Beach, Quincy Bay.
Travelers at LaGuardia Airport's Terminal B were briefly evacuated Saturday morning because of a suspicious package. LaGuardia passengers evacuated over suspicious package, flight disruptions expected
In 1928, anthropologist Frank G. Speck published Territorial subdivisions and boundaries of the Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Nauset Indians which included 17th-century Massachusett history. At Ponkapoag, Speck met Mrs. Chapelle (died 1919) who identified as a Massachusett Indian and whose husband was Mi'kmaq. Speck estimated that in 1921 a ...