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Stockbridge repents (belatedly)
Posted on Mon, Sep. 28, 2009
Shery White, Mohican Historic Preservation Officer.
By David Scribner
STOCKBRIDGE—Like many Colonial outposts, the settlement that became Stockbridge had an ambivalent relationship with its original inhabitants, the Mohicans, a band of Native Americans whose land reached the length of the Hudson River and extended east to Massachusetts and west to central New York.
Around 1734, the English colonists embraced the Mohicans — who had taught them, among other skills, how to make maple syrup — as candidates for Christianization at the Mission House.
But after the Mohicans had fought on the side of Americans in the Revolutionary War, they were unceremoniously and ungratefully sent packing when their territory became the target of a land grab.
Two centuries later, the town of Stockbridge is now trying to make amends, as best it can, to the 1,500 descendents of those original Mohicans. With $2,000 from the community preservation fund, the town intends to begin restoration of the Indian Burial Grounds site on West Main Street......for the full story pick up this week’s Berkshire Record at a newsstand or subscribe by calling 413-528-5380 ext. 29. Support your local newspaper, the community's watch dog. Subscribe by calling 413-528-5380 ext. 29..TOP STORY
STOCKBRIDGE—Like many Colonial outposts, the settlement that became Stockbridge had an ambivalent relationship with its original inhabitants, the Mohicans, a band of Native Americans whose land reached the length of the Hudson River and extended east to Massachusetts and west to central New York.
Around 1734, the English colonists embraced the Mohicans — who had taught them, among other skills, how to make maple syrup — as candidates for Christianization at the Mission House.
But after the Mohicans had fought on the side of Americans in the Revolutionary War, they were unceremoniously and ungratefully sent packing when their territory became the target of a land grab.
Two centuries later, the town of Stockbridge is now trying to make amends, as best it can, to the 1,500 descendents of those original Mohicans. With $2,000 from the community preservation fund, the town intends to begin restoration of the Indian Burial Grounds site on West Main Street......for the full story pick up this week’s Berkshire Record at a newsstand or subscribe by calling 413-528-5380 ext. 29. Support your local newspaper, the community's watch dog. Subscribe by calling 413-528-5380 ext. 29..TOP STORY
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Dear Mr. Scribner,
You and the Berkshire Record may be interested in "A Life of John Konkapot," a portrait of the Mohican chief who sold what were Mohican hunting grounds to settlers arriving from from eastern parts of New England. The book, by Stockbridge resident Lion Miles and newly published by the New Marlborough Historical Society, recounts how Konkapot led much of his tribe to the Christian faith and negotiated a peaceful co-existence with the Colonials. Based on original research and never-before-published facsimiles of documents signed (with his turkey-foot totem) by Konkapot, it is the definitive biography of the Mohican leader in the earliest days of the Stockbridge Settlement.
Joseph Poindexter
President
New Marlborough Historical Society
You and the Berkshire Record may be interested in "A Life of John Konkapot," a portrait of the Mohican chief who sold what were Mohican hunting grounds to settlers arriving from from eastern parts of New England. The book, by Stockbridge resident Lion Miles and newly published by the New Marlborough Historical Society, recounts how Konkapot led much of his tribe to the Christian faith and negotiated a peaceful co-existence with the Colonials. Based on original research and never-before-published facsimiles of documents signed (with his turkey-foot totem) by Konkapot, it is the definitive biography of the Mohican leader in the earliest days of the Stockbridge Settlement.
Joseph Poindexter
President
New Marlborough Historical Society
said Joseph Poindexter at 30-Sep-09 09:30 AM
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