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Michael Carolan: Justus Dwight's land purchase explained

Michael Carolan: Justus Dwight's land purchase explained
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Lauren R. Stevens | The View from White Oaks: Establishing — and acknowledging — the truth of this land's first inhabitants

The prevailing version of history has been that Native Americans didnât actually live in the Berkshire area prior to the founding of Indiantown (Stockbridge). They were just passing through, for hunting, trade or interacting with other tribes. Well, itâs easy to see how, if colonists of European extraction were appropriating Native American land, that would be a convenient truth.
But a series of archaeological digs and research is amassing evidence that Indigenous people, known as the ancestors to their Mohican descendants, maintained permanent residences here prior to the time of contact. The latest evidence, and perhaps the most convincing, is the discovery of a probable Indigenous dwelling behind the newly discovered first meetinghouse site on Main Street in Stockbridge. ....

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