Six posters bearing the first names of the 11,169 people in Massachusetts who died of opioid overdoses from 2008 to 2017 are displayed in Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healeyâs office as she announces a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma.
KATIE LAnNAN
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
The court document scrolls on the screen like an eternal list of sorrow. The plaintiffs include Flint, Mich., the Navajo Nation, Nantucket, the cities of Holyoke, Fall River and Northampton, Her Majesty The Queen In Right of The Province of British Columbia, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, whose people now are in Wisconsin.
It also includes the cities of North Adams and Pittsfield among the other entities and communities ravaged by the opioid crisis and entitled to settlements from the Sackler family, founders and owners of OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma. And it includes people like Gary Pratt, a Sheffield man who says he lost years of his life because of a painkiller tha
STOCKBRIDGE â For descendants of the townâs original settlers, the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, a return to their ancestral homelands always packs a powerful, emotional punch.
That was especially evident last week, as several tribal members dedicated a new public exhibit at the Trustees of Reservationsâ Mission House at 19 Main St. Artifacts from the Mohican Nationâs archives went on display, curated from their museum in Bowler, Wis., in the area where the descendants have resided since the 1850s, after their forced exile from Stockbridge and a long westward journey, enduring tremendous hardship.
In the 1730s, after the 125-member tribe arrived from New Yorkâs Upper Hudson Valley, Stockbridge â it originally was named Indian Town â was settled as a missionary community for the Mohicans and English to coexist and co-govern. The Rev. John Sergeant, an English settler, created a mission house in the town to promote Christiani
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STOCKBRIDGE Town taxpayers will see a lean operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year, reflecting an overall increase of $154,000, less than 1.5 percent, from fiscal year 2021, which