A free event to give visitors a perspective on Pokanoket life in the East Bay (Sowams) from past centuries to the present day through dancing, singing, drumming, storytelling and displays on Pokanoket history and culture.
Dr. David Weed, Coordinator of the Sowams Heritage Area Project, will offer a 90-minute presentation to the Friends of the Somerset Library group at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 8, 2025. The talk will focus on the outbreak of the war that took place not far from Somerset in June of 1675, as well as […]
2025 marks the 350th anniversary of the start of The War for New England (King Philip's War). In response to this important assertion of the sovereignty of Dawn land's Indigenous peoples, colonial officials instituted a widespread policy of captivity, enslavement, and trafficking people out of Dawnland into the Caribbean, Mexico, North Africa, the Azores, and […]
2025 marks the 350th anniversary of the start of King Philip’s War, a brutal, two-year struggle between New England’s Native Americans and their English neighbors. Fought in southern New England from 1675 to 1676, the War ended fifty years of peace and changed the cultural and political landscape of New England forever. Schultz will review […]