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SUMMARY:What Really Happened at Turners Falls? The Story of a Massacre
DESCRIPTION:This monument to Captain William Turner sums up an old and perhaps familiar telling of history. We have a colonial hero\, later slain in battle. Small but mighty colonial forces overcome the odds. Apparently passive “Indians” are taken by surprise. Nameless Native people are “destroyed.”\n\n\n\nHow accurate is this picture of history? Not very\, according to this unique panel discussion led by David Brule of the Nolumbeka Project\, with archaeologist David Naumec and Liz ColdWind Santana Kiser\, tribal historic preservation officer of the Chaubunagungamaug Band of Nipmuck Indians. All three panelists were at the heart of a remarkable 13-year\, National Park Service-funded project investigating the true story of the Turners Falls massacre. David Brule chaired the project from its inception in 2013. \nSince the 1670s most historians have told the story of Turners Falls/Peskeompskut as a remarkable\, heroic colonial victory. With the findings from this investigation\, as our panel shows\, we now know the story is far more nuanced. \nThree hundred and fifty years ago on May 19\, 1676\, William Turner’s colonial forces attacked a camp of Native elders\, women and children – noncombatants who had taken refuge after fleeing fighting in the south – and slaughtered hundreds. A Native coalition counterattacked the following day in an underreported decisive Indigenous victory. But what remains in memory is the Turners Falls massacre\, one of the worst atrocities in a war of atrocity. \nThis panel discussion will reveal what really happened\, based on findings from battlefield terrain technologies and archaeology. The panelists will share Indigenous and archaeological/anthropological perspectives\, and discuss this unique study – an on-going collaborative investigation by battlefield experts\, local historical commissioners\, and tribal historic preservation officers from the Nipmuck community\, as well as from the Aquinnah Wampanoag\, the Elnu Abenaki\, and the Narragansett tribal historic preservation office. \nThis new historical perspective is crucial to Indigenous communities in revealing the truth about the past\, contributing to healing that place\, addressing certain multi-generational trauma\, and\, in a small way\, beginning to help heal Northeastern tribal descendants. \nDavid Brule has been project coordinator for the study of the Battle of Great Falls/ Wissatinnewag-Peskeompskut May 19\, 1676 funded by the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program from its inception in 2013 to publication of its final report in 2025. He is also president of the Nolumbeka Project\, a tribal non-profit organization that promotes education and awareness of Indigenous histories and cultures of the middle Connecticut River Valley and beyond. He is a featured speaker in numerous educational programs and presentations throughout the Connecticut River Valley. \nDavid is the author of several books comprising his series on regional history\, local culture\, and the natural world: West Along the River. He serves as chairman of the Nehantic Tribal Council and the Nehantic Nation Cultural Conservancy. \nDavid Naumec is a historian\, archaeologist\, and museum consultant who is collaborating with several Connecticut institutions to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution while also serving as an adjunct history professor and working in the field of cultural resource management. Dr. Naumec is a graduate of UConn Storrs\, holds a master’s degree in history and museum studies from Tufts University\, and completed his doctorate in early American history at Clark University. His professional and personal research interests include Native American history\, colonial North America\, the history of Connecticut\, and conflict archaeology. Dr. Naumec was co-investigator with Dr. Kevin McBride of the University of Connecticut for the Battle of Great Falls/Peskeompskut NPS-funded project from 2018-2025\, where he served as military historian and battlefield archaeologist. \nLiz Cold Wind Santana-Kiser is an elder\, council woman and tribal historic preservation officer for the Chaubunagungamaug Band of Nipmuck Indians. She is married with six children\, and many grandchildren. For more than five decades\, she has worked at the forefront of improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous People. \nShe founded the Nipmuck Women’s Health Coalition\, a disease-prevention and health promotion coalition to support Nipmuck and other tribes throughout New England. Liz has also collaborated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School to coordinate the first major conferences on health disparities affecting Nipmuck peoples. She also worked with the Great Brook Valley Health Center in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, and co-founded the Nipmuc Family Dental Clinic. \nLiz currently serves on the 1676 Battle of Great Falls Advisory Board in Turners Falls\, Mass.\, Harvard Alumni Committee on Developing Educational Module on Ethics in Public Health\, the Stolen Relations Project on Indigenous slavery at Brown University\, Worcester Arts Museum community and cultural groups for reinstallation of American art galleries. \nShe has earned many prestigious awards including the prized Eagle Feather for her years of work and dedication to the revitalization and wellbeing of indigenous Nipmuc people and beyond.
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SUMMARY:The Long Legacy: The Cost and Continuance of Indigenous Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Join a panel of Indigenous speakers in asking: how do we reckon with the legacy of King Philip’s War today?\n\n\n\nAs the final event in our series Metacom’s Resistance\, this Indigenous panel asks: how do we reckon with this history today? What is due to the people of the Eastern Woodlands? Join us at the main Boston Public LIbrary at Copley Square\, or online. \nForced displacement\, enslavement\, land seizures and dispossession\, a global diaspora and suppression of languages – the war that bore the name of Metacom\, or Philip\, left a long and devastating trail of destruction. \nIndigenous communities\, including the Wampanoag\, Nipmuc\, Narragansett\, Massachusett\, Abenaki\, and other Algonquian-speaking peoples\, became refugees in their own land. People suffered the deaths of respected tribal leaders\, warriors\, and countless noncombatants\, enslavement\, and widespread displacement. Many actions during the war carried out by the United Colonies (Massachusetts\, Plymouth\, and Connecticut)\, with the aid of Indigenous allies\, were deliberate and excessive\, intended to remove Native peoples from their homelands and pave the way for colonial occupation. King Philip’s war not only enabled 17th century colonial expansion but laid the foundation for the American Revolution and beyond. \nThis intertribal panel\, The Long Legacy: The Cost and Continuance of Indigenous Resistance\, explores the lasting consequences of the war for Indigenous people across the region: its human and cultural costs\, its role in shaping American history\, and the resilience and survivance of Native people. \nSpeakers include Mack Scott\, Narragansett\, visiting assistant professor of slavery and justice at Brown University; Kimberly Toney\, Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc\, coordinating curator for Native American and Indigenous collections\, Brown University; Paul Peters\, Masheppe Wampanoag\, Communications and Programs Coordinator of the Native Land Conservancy. The moderator is Cheryll Toney Holley\, sonksq of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc and winner of multiple awards including an honorary doctorate for public service. \nPANELISTS \nAs sonksq (female leader) of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band as well as a researcher\, writer and speaker\, Cheryll Toney Holley advocates for economic and social justice in all aspects of her community\, including land-back opportunities\, education and language reclamation. She is a co-founder and board member of the nonprofit Nipmuc Indian Development Corporation (NIDC) and a former director of the Hassanamisco Indian Museum\, located on the tribe’s Hassanamesit reservation. For ten years she served on the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs. Currently she is a member of the Commonwealth’s Environmental Justice Council and of the Worcester Black History Project. Holley has a BA in history and an honorary doctorate in public service from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. She is the recipient of multiple awards including the Mass Humanities Governor’s Award. A veteran and a mom of four and grandmother of eight\, she currently lives in Worcester\, where generations of her family lived before her. \nKimberly Toney is an enrolled member of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc and is the inaugural coordinating curator of Native American and Indigenous collections\, jointly appointed to the John Carter Brown and John Hay Libraries at Brown University. Kim has worked in special collections libraries for more than 15 years\, including as head of readers’ services and director of Indigenous initiatives at the American Antiquarian Society on Nipmuc homelands in Worcester\, Massachusetts. Kim is co-chair of the newly formed Nipmuc Community Land Project and regularly serves as a consultant to cultural heritage institutions across southern New England. Her own research and personal interests include language and cultural reclamation\, the intersections of Black and Indigenous histories in the Northeast\, connecting Indigenous knowledges and practices to scholarly endeavors\, and land back. \nMack H. Scott III is an enrolled member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe (Nation)\, historian\, educator\, and public scholar specializing in Native American and Indigenous histories\, with a particular focus on the Dawnland/Narragansett country and the intersections of indigeneity\, race\, memory\, and futurity. His work bridges academic research and public history\, centering Indigenous agency\, survivance\, and the ethical responsibilities of historical storytelling. His scholarship appears in journals such as Ethnohistory and the Journal of Contemporary History\, and he is the author of the forthcoming work The Great Tee and the Summer Sun: Indigeneity and Futurity in the Narragansett Country. He currently serves as director of undergraduate studies for the Native American and Indigenous studies initiative and as a visiting assistant professor at the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. \nPaula Peters is a politically\, socially and culturally active citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. For more than a decade she worked as a journalist for the Cape Cod Times and is now co-owner of SmokeSygnals\, a Native owned and operated creative production agency. As an independent scholar and writer of Native\, and particularly Wampanoag history\, she produced the traveling exhibit “Our”Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History and The Wampum Belt Project documenting the art and tradition of wampum in the contemporary Wampanoag community. In 2020 she wrote the introduction to the 400th Anniversary Edition of William Bradford’s\, Of Plimoth Plantation. Paula is also the executive producer of the 2016 documentary film Mashpee Nine and author of the companion book\, a story of law enforcement abuse of power and cultural justice in the Wampanoag community in 1976. Paula lives with her husband and children in Mashpee\, Massachusetts\, the Wampanoag ancestral homeland.
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