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Passaconaway was also recorded as being a Pawtucket chief sachem, who also held authority with the Wamesit, Pascataqua, and Pennacook peoples. [1] In December 1633, a smallpox epidemic killed both Wonohaquaham and Montowampate along with a large portion of the tribe, [7] leaving Wenepoykin and the Squaw Sachem as the leaders of a much smaller ...
Note: Contemporary people are listed under their specific tribes. Askamaboo, 17th-century female Nantucket sachem; Crispus Attucks, first person killed in Boston Massacre; Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the first American Indian to graduate from Harvard College; Corbitant, 17th-century sachem of the Pocasset
Historic Wampanoag territory, c. 1620 Massachusetts has two federally recognized tribes.They have met the seven criteria of an American Indian tribe: being an American Indian entity since at least 1900, a predominant part of the group forms a distinct community and has done so throughout history into the present; holding political influence over its members, having governing documents ...
Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island about 30 miles (48 km) south from Cape Cod. [1] Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government in the state of Massachusetts, USA. Nantucket is the southeasternmost town in both Massachusetts and ...
On Nantucket, and indigenous tribes had access to forest trees tall enough to provide long tree trunks for canoes and the lodge until ~0 AD as indicated above. [5] The Wampanoag predominated among the indigenous peoples of Nantucket upon European contact. They acquired this identity from John Smith in 1616.
Rocchi recently provided an art show with Indigenous cooking to promote his platform of restoring food sovereignty to Native people. He offered braised bison short rib with wojapi-infused barbecue ...
Indigenous Peoples’ Day has been recognised for decades in different forms and under a variety of names to celebrate Native Americans’ history and culture, and to recognise the challenges they ...
Dorcas had her only known child with Thomas Honorable. Their child was a daughter named Emmeline. By 1830, it would appear that Dorcas and Thomas Honorable were living in New Guinea, but they returned to Nantucket in 1850, around the time that Dorcas was widowed. Dorcas lived the rest of her life in the household of Thaddeus Coffin on Nantucket.