Resources: Local Native American History

From the Massachusetts Historical Commission [see footnote]

“Historic and Archaeological Resources” – Regional Reports http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhchpp/RegReconnRpts.htm

From Our Plural History: Springfield, Massachusetts

“First Peoples” http://ourpluralhistory.stcc.edu/firstpeoples/index.html

From the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association

"Wôbanaki Lifeways - circa 1600.” http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/groups/lifeways.do?title=Wobanakiak

"Assault on Peskeompskut" http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/scenes/scene.do?title=Peskeompskut

"Native Diaspora and New Communities: Algonkian & Wôbanaki." http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/background/index.do

"Native Land Use and Settlements in the Northeastern Woodlands." http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/background/index.do

"A Brief History of Metacom's War." http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/popups/background.do?shortName=expMetacomsWar

"English Colonization" http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/popups/background.do?shortName=expColonialEnglish

"Who Owns History and How Do We Decide?" http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/popups/background.do?shortName=expOwnsHistory

From the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center

Jason Mancini – "Indian Mariners Project" https://indianmarinersproject.com/

Kevin McBride – "Battlefields of King Philip's War" http://www.kpwar.org/about-the-project/index.html

Native Northeast Portal https://nativenortheastportal.com/

From Lisa Brooks, Amherst College

"The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast" Maps. https://lbrooks.people.amherst.edu/thecommonpot/

"Our Beloved Kin: Remapping A New History of King Philip's War" https://ourbelovedkin.com/awikhigan/index

FOOTNOTE

We would like to note that we oppose the continuing use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts state seal that is visible on this webpage. This image, in its current form, combines three historically distinct parts - a figure intended to represent a Native leader from the 1630s, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded; a Revolutionary War military sabre from 1780; and a Latin phrase coined by an English politician in 1659, "Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem," meaning "By the sword, he seeks peace under quiet liberty." In its current form (adopted as the state seal in 1885), this combination of text and images, with the sword held above a Native person's head, is visually threatening, implying and seemingly extolling colonial violence against Native Americans. Upon seeing such an image, some Indigenous people feel that they are not welcomed by the state. Please take action to support the elimination of this seal.