Ponkapoag
Ponkapoag (Template:Pron-en) (also Punkapoag or Punkapog) is the name of a Native American "praying town" settled in the western Blue Hills area of eastern Massachusetts during the colonization the Atlantic seaboard of the United States by settlers from Britain in the early 17th century. It is the name given to the winter residence (and subsequently the tribe itself) of the group of Massachusett Indians which lived at the mouth of the Neponset River in summer, and is now contained almost entirely by the town of Canton, Massachusetts.[1] Ponkapoag Plantation was established in 1657 as a 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) town parcel formed from Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1][2] It was the second Christianized native settlement, or "Praying Town" in Massachusetts, after Natick was established in 1651.[1][3] The name of the tribe comes from the name of a pond 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Great Blue Hill and means "shallow pond" or "a spring that bubbles from red soil".[4]
References
- ^ a b c Huntoon, Daniel T. V. (1893). "Ponkapoag Plantation". History of the Town of Canton. Cambridge, Massachusetts: John Wilson and Son. pp. 10–13. OCLC 3615638. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
- ^ "Neponsett / Ponkapoag Tribe Home Page". Ponkapoag Tribal Council. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
- ^ "Our History". Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
- ^ Douglas-Lithgow, Robert Alexander (1909). Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England. Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press. p. 148. OCLC 621081. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
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