All posts tagged "Native American history"
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17.4K3MassachusettsWhat the Abenaki People Called the Full Moon
Sometime around 1645, William Pynchon wrote down the names given to each full moon by a tribe of Abenaki Indians. Pynchon, an...
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35.5K2bostonBoston Marathon Trivia, or Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About the Big Race
Like so many New England sports traditions, the Boston Marathon is surrounded by lore and legend. What Bostonian doesn’t know about Heartbreak...
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12.0K4Arts and LeisureBuffy Sainte-Marie Fights For Her Indian People
Buffy Sainte-Marie was a rising star in the 1960s until her activism on behalf of her Native-American people put a lid on...
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17.1K1Crime and ScandalJane Macrae, Murdered on the Way to Her Loyalist Lover
The sensational murder of Jane Macrae in July 1777 made her one of the best known women of the 19th century. She...
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18.6K10Arts and LeisureThe Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company of New Haven Entertains the Masses (But Doesn’t Cure Them)
Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional moonshine created by Al Capp, but there were real Kickapoo ‘medicines’ that sold like wildfire in...
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10.2K2Business and LaborHow July 4th Partying Cost the Life of Thoreau’s Maine Guide
Joe Attien was a Maine guide, logger and Penobscot chief who died in a logging accident. It probably wouldn’t have happened if...
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