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To: SeekAndFind

The Indian is Massasoit, for whom Massachusetts was named. But I appreciate his firmly planted tongue in cheek article.


4 posted on 06/26/2015 9:12:29 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: originalbuckeye

“The Indian is Massasoit, for whom Massachusetts was named”

Actually Massachusetts was named for the Massachusetts tribe - many of its members (and those of other tribes) were sold as slaves and sent to the Caribbean after the King Phillip’s War in 1676.

Keep in mind many, perhaps most of New England’s stone walls were built by Native American slaves - shame they’ll have to be destroyed now.


14 posted on 06/26/2015 9:47:07 AM PDT by Sparky1776
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