Posts Tagged ‘Indigenous History’
You live in Anmoughcawgen
For millennia before this area became known as Cambridge, it was called Anmoughcawgen – in the Algonquin Natick dialect, “fishing weir” or “beaver dam,” which described the neighborhoods from Alewife to Kendall/MIT. A Participatory Budgeting project will return traditional Eastern Woodland languages to city property.
Read MoreWe’re searching for the Indigenous voices of Cambridge
How did you learn about Native American/American Indian people? Your experiences and memories will be helpful primary source material for our scholars.
Read MoreHistory Cambridge looks back at 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, History Cambridge is looking back on a year filled with events and collaborations that have helped us to live into our mission to collect and share the stories of all Cantabrigians. Our theme for 2022 was “Who Are Cambridge Workers?” Many of our programs focused on the history of labor in the city, but we also held events and created partnerships in other areas of Cambridge history, including our temporary art installation honoring the lives of the enslaved people who lived and worked on Brattle Street.
Read MoreNovember is Native American Heritage Month, but Indigenous history can be celebrated all year
Thanksgiving and its accompanying celebrations provide an opportunity to learn about Indigenous history, but we shouldn’t be limited to November.
Read MoreBeing an ally to Indigenous people isn’t difficult, from calling legislators to learning town names
Tuesday is the 28th annual International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. It commemorates the first meeting held by the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Each year on this day, governments and organizations come together to participate in educational seminars and meet to discuss the prominent social issues Indigenous peoples experience worldwide.
Read MoreIndigenous Peoples History Hub
Curious about the Indigenous history of this place? Start learning here.
Read MoreIndigenous scholars put up with missionaries, Harvard’s Indian College and ‘praying towns’
The history of Indigenous people in the place we call Cambridge is vastly untold and underrepresented, yet important to understand to comprehend the roots and depth of the cultural genocide that Native Americans faced over centuries within Massachusetts and the United States as a whole. Indigenous scholars, who were instructed under Colonial education systems, have similarly received very little recognition despite their impact. They disrupted the colonists’ “conviction of Colonial dominance” over the Native people. They used their learned and observed skills and the Colonialist teachings thrust upon them to their advantage to benefit themselves and their communities. James Printer and John Sassamon are among the many examples of Indigenous people – often apprenticed to Christian missionaries – who used assimilation to their advantage to reclaim their humanity and rights.
Read MoreCambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Indian Association Records, 1886-1923
Administrative Information Historical Sketch Related Collections Sources Scope and Content Note Library of Congress Subject Headings Series Description and Folder Listing 2 document boxes .625 cubic feet Processor: Christopher J. Lenney Date: November 2004 Acquisition: The Records of the Cambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Indian Association were conveyed to Cambridge Historical Society on 22 November…
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