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The Peskeompskut Massacre or Battle of Great Falls

Page history last edited by Robert W. Maloy 3 years ago

 

Battle at Turner's Falls: Artwork by John Hoenig Morris

Battle at Turner's Falls:  Artwork by John Hoenig Morris

  

Event Summary


Peskeomskut is the name for the waterfalls on the Connecticut River between the communities of Turners Falls and Gill, Massachusetts

The Peskeomskut Massacre or the Falls Fight was a pivotal event in King Philip's War.

The event unfolded when a colonial militia led a pre-dawn ambush of an Indian fishing village on the shores of the river on May 16, 1676.

 

 

View an interactive photograph and summary of the scene at Assault on Peskeompskut from the Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, Massachusetts

 

 

 Cross-Link: King Philip's War

 

Cross-Link: English Settlers and Native Peoples

 

 

Two Histories

 

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Technical Report: Battle of Great Falls/Wissantinnewag-Peskeompskut, American Battlefield Protection Program, National Park Service (February 2016)


Remembering & Reconnecting: Nipmucs and the Massacre at Great Falls, Chaubunagungamuug Nipmuck Historic Preservation Office (October 2015)

Recent Developments

 

 

 

   

 

 

Connecticut River at Turners Falls; Photo by Marcbela
Connecticut River at Turners Falls; Photo by Marcbela

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perspectives on the Massacre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link here for more on Native/Settler Interactions during the Colonial Period

 

 

 

Attack on Metacomet's fort, published in Harper's Magazine, 1857
Attack on Metacomet's fort, published in Harper's Magazine, 1857


Teaching Resources and Learning Activities


Link to Democratic Teaching/Conversing for Lesson Plan on Native American Mascots


Summary of American Psychological Association Resolution Recommending Retirement of American Indian Mascots (2005)


Ending the Era of Harmful "Indian" Mascots, National Congress of American Indians


Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War. Lisa Brooks, Yale University Press, 2018

 

 

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