The granite ledge is inscribed with the story of the colonial hostage negotiation and release of Mary White Rowlandson from captivity. Angered by the spread of colonial settlements westward, the chief Metacomet (known to European settlers as King Philip) led the Nipmuc, Narragansett, and Wampanoag in defense of their land.

In May of 1995, the Hassanamisco Band, the Chaubunagungamaug Band, and Nipmucs associated with the Nipmuc Tribal Acknowledgement Project (NTAP) designated the Nipmuc Nation organization as the vehicle to facilitate federal recognition.

Angered by the spread of colonial settlements westward, the chief King Philip (Metacomet) led the Nipmuc, Narragansett, and Wampanoag in defense of their land. In February 1676, several hundred Native Americans attacked Lancaster and captured Mary White Rowlandson, her three children, and twenty others and took them into the wilderness for ...

The Nipmuc or Nipmuck people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who historically spoke an Eastern Algonquian language, probably the Loup language. [6] Their historic territory Nippenet, meaning 'the freshwater pond place', is in central Massachusetts and nearby parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island .

We are committed to our sacred trust of protecting our democratic rights as citizens of the Nipmuc Nation. Currently, We are in the process of aggressively pursuing legal action against those who are trying to undermine our democracy by spreading fraudulent claims.

Through periods of forced assimilation, legal battles, and systemic racism, the Nipmuc continually fought for their sovereignty and rights to their ancestral lands. Today, the Nipmuc people, organized as the Hassanamisco and Chaubunagungamaug Bands, continue to assert their presence and thrive.

The Hassanamesets (or Hassanemassets) were a Nipmuc band; Hassanamesit was also a "Praying Town". The Hassanamisco band still exists today with a small reservation on Brigham Hill Road in Grafton. Hassunek Hill, Worcester County - "at the stony place". (Eliot gives "a ledge of rocks". Perhaps a rock-shelter in an overhang; a cave?)

May 17, 2009 · To a casual observer, it may look like a boulder rent by a bolt of lightning, but to the Nipmuc Indians of centuries ago it was a portal to the underworld, filled with rocks to block out evil...

The name Tantiusques comes from a Nipmuc word meaning “the place between two low hills." The Nipmuc used the graphite to make ceremonial paints. The property also contains the ruins of a 19th-century period house that belonged to a mine worker of mixed African American and Native American ancestry.

Mar 27, 2025 · This video the explores sites of Nipmuc life before, during, and after colonial contact around the area of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachsuetts. Cheryll Toney Holley, Leader of the Hassanamisco Band in the Nipmuc Nation, provides an introduction and commentary.