Many strange town names in Massachusetts can be traced back to colonial days and indigenous tribes. Cuttyhunk ... gets its name from a Native American word for “thing that lies out in the ...

Donald Trump overwhelmingly carried the Native American vote. By January, just six days before Trump took office, the ...

But today, Native ... northeastern tribes, wampum was a valued gift. But European settlers, whether by mistake or by design, adopted it as money. So in 1637, the general court of Massachusetts ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-value-land/ For millennia a diverse population of Native American tribes thrived on the abundant lands ...

Natick and Mi'kmaq tribes all have a word for earthquake. Ebel said interdisciplinary research with ethnologists with more detailed knowledge about Native American languages and narratives could ...

Among that group, Arlington native Pat Connaughton stepped up ... He was named the Gatorade Massachusetts Boys Basketball Player of the Year during his senior year with the Eagles in 2011 and ...