While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Of the five principal nations of New England in 1674, the Pequod or Mohegan, the
two being considered as one, were tribes of considerable influence and strength
of numbers, claiming authority over all the Indians of the Connecticut Valley.
Jonathan Edwards states that the language of the Stockbridge or Muhhekanew
(Mohegan) was spoken throughout New Eng land. Nearly every tribe had a different
dialect, but the language was radically the same. Elliot's translation of the
Bible is in a particular dialect of this language. The Stock-bridges, so named
from the place of their residence, was originally a part of the Housatonic tribe
of Massachusetts, to whom the legislature of that State granted a section of
land in 1736. They were subsequently removed to New Stockbridge and Brotherton,
in Western New York, many other tribes of New England and also of New York
joining them. They had good lands and fine farms, and were rapidly becoming
worthy of citizenship, when, in 1857, they were removed to a reservation Dear
Green Bay, Wisconsin, on which, their agent reported, no white man could obtain
a comfortable livelihood by farming. They have been divided for some time into
two bands, known as the "citizen" and "Indian; factions, the former having lived
off from the reservation for the past twelve years. In 1875, 13i of the
"citizens" received their per capita share of the tribal property, and became
private citizens of the United States. The tribe has 118 members remaining.
1050. Na-Un-Naup-Tauk. Jacob Jacobs. Stockbridge
A delegate from the Stockbridge Indians to Washington in 1875, and again in
1876. Born in Wisconsin in 1834. Belongs to the "citizen" band, and participated
in the late division of the tribal property and separation from the tribe.
1049. Waun-Naun-Con. J. C. W. Adams. Stockbridge
Born on the Seneca reservation in New York in 1843, and removed to Wisconsin in
1853. Received a collegiate education at the Lawrence University. In 1876
represented the Stockbridge and Munsee as a delegate in Washington.
1065. Lyman P. Fowler. Brotherton
A member of the Brotherton branch of the Pequod Nation. Born in Oneida County,
New York, in 1823, but emigrated with some of the Stockbridge to Wisconsin in
1836. Chosen as a delegate to Washington on behalf of the Stockbridge and Munsee.
Other Pequod,
Brotherton and Stockbridge Indian
Resources
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
