All posts tagged "Indian history"
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7.9K4MaineEpenow, the Wampanoag Who Conned His Way Home From England
William Shakespeare probably saw Epenow when he was put on display in London in 1612. Several English sea captains probably wished they’d...
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8.5KMassachusettsWilliam Apess Leads the Bloodless Mashpee Revolt of 1833
William Apess was the perfect person to lead the nonviolent Mashpee Revolt of 1833, an uprising against the Massachusetts government. The commonwealth...
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14.3K4MaineThe Candlemas Massacre and the Salem Witch Trials
One week after two girls in Salem, Mass., begun having strange fits, the Candlemas Massacre wiped out the village of York in...
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7.9K2Business and LaborMashpee Teen James Mye Ends Slavery for Indian Children
James Mye, a poor Indian boy, was apprenticed to a Nantucket couple whose children treated him like a slave. The commonwealth never...
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9.0K2ConnecticutIn 1634 John Stone Is Lost in the Connecticut Fog of War
In 1634, Pequot Indians captured a vessel commanded by English trader John Stone at the mouth of the Connecticut River. They killed...
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5.1K4MaineTomah Joseph, the Indian Elder Who Taught a President
The friendship between an Indian elder named Tomah Joseph and a 10-year-old rich kid would change the way Native Americans were treated...
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7.4K1Arts and LeisureLouis Sockalexis, The Indian Athlete With the Tragic Flaw
Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a...
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5.9K6MassachusettsBetsey Guppy Chamberlain Promotes the Radical Notion That Indians Are People
Betsey Guppy Chamberlain, a half-Algonquian mill girl, published some of the first – if not the first — criticisms of the way...
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12.7K3Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: Plymouth Celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims
The Town of Plymouth, Mass., commemorated the 300th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims from June to September 1921 with the...
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