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Taw-but-ni ( thank-you )
from Walkingfox.
05/15/2010
I have been getting a lot of visitors to my web sites
over the years looking for the word Aquine.
Have you all noticed how little is known about this
well used word before first contact and before Casino Indian?
It is so sad to know that so many Traditional American native
words and signs are being lost to wannabe's!
A special welcome to all of my friends that came here from
my old EarthLink web site.
For many years I loved the EarthLink company however,
for the last three or four years
they have gone 3rd class and have forced their many
loyal customers to leave them.
I do not like change however, like the thousands
of other loyal customers
I also had to leave them!
Again thank-you for coming to my tripod site!
Taw-but-ni
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04/20/2010
This interesting web page was sent to me by a new friend.
This is a lot of interesting reading.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
To my brothers and sisters throughout Indian country.
Do you have Bright house cable network?
After you find out what they think about our people you may want to re-think this company!
A few months ago I wrote a letter to the Bright house cable network explaining the non native use of the words HA! CHIEF! in their advertisements on T V.
After all I did not expect them to know why those words would be so offensive to our people.
I did receive a very cold reply saying that they would take it up with their main office.
If you will notice now they have tripled that advertisement as if to say that a minority race has no right to tell this large big business how to advertise?
So if you have or are thinking on getting Bright house cable T V, Think again!
Walkingfox
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Cauchegan Rock Cochegan rock named by European settlers/Cauchegan Rock the true Mohegan name has been over looked for many years now and I liked it that way. Cauchegan rock (named after a Mohegan relation family of mine that first lived in the village) is the largest rock in Mohegan land. The unique setting of the rock was the main reason that it was used so often as a meeting place by Uncas and his followers. In the spring and for most of the summer, the tribe used it and the land around it, for one of their many villages. Often times, the trees would be used where they stood, to form long and roundhouses. The village was surrounded by fresh water for drinking, gardening, washing, etc., while, the nearby Pequot River provided an abundant supply of fish and clams. The Fox River has now been diverted and used elsewhere by housing development! My Grandfather told me that the tribe would often put tables and chairs on top of Cauchegan rock when they held their meetings. This would also allow them to see anyone coming towards them from great distances, friend or foe. In the colder weather, the tribe would use the rocks and trees in the area to shelter them from the winds. The warmer weather it was a good place for gardening. The first Pau-was of the new season would begin at the rock with fellowshipping, before going on to the Great River, the Quinatucquet River, to Pau-was with other tribes. I have always wondered if it would not be more beneficial for one non-profit organization to share this land with other non-profit organizations and all true native elders. This very sacred land is now being used to help young men learn about and enjoy Mother Earth. However, every time someone talks to me about their trip to this Sacred Mohegan Land, the first thing that they mention is the littering. Why not share the land with our elders, as well as with the Cub Scouts, Brownies and Girl Scouts? In this way, more people would be available to help clean it up, and be taught how to show respect for Mother Earth, while keeping it out of the hands of those who would shame Uncas and all of the Ancestors, by turning it into just another tourist attraction. Attention/Now for an update, The Sachem Uncas sacred prayer rock village has been turned over to the casino Indians so now we shall see just how long the Ancestors of New England Woodland American Natives beloved Cauchegan Rock village can remain a sacred Mohegan prayer place? Aquine, Sachem Walkingfox
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Now a word to the children of
Uncas Elementary School
280 Elizabeth Street Extension
Norwich, Connecticut 06360
860.823.4208
Please go to
Half way down the page is an article done
by young students early in the computer age.
Aquai my friends
Before I start teaching about my people from New England
I wish to make clear that although I cannot and will not do homework
assignments for students and I am sure that your teachers and parents
are pleased to hear that.
"However, because my Grandfather was the main Grand Sachem Chief
of our people" he would often hold meetings with leaders from all over
New England so, I will always answer questions about what
I have learned while growing up hanging around our elders from each tribe
of our American native people and one can use this knowledge
to help with your works.
I have just learned that the search company" Ask.com,
IAC Search & Media Europe Limited"
that has been coming to many of my American native web sites
from Asian & Europe & of course the rest of the world
is also used in their school systems
so I have set up a small notepad at the bottom of my pages
so that you can leave me your notes.
Aquine Sachem Walkingfox
Who are the Mohegan and Pequot American Native People? |
I need to start out with some boring statistics to lay the ground work like
" in the beginning".
Most people believe that American natives chased their food souse mainly the woolly Mammoth through the Bering straits land bridge and our people came across and down into what are now the Great lakes in the Hudson River valley. Our English name became known as the Monheags. One of these groups of people became land diggers/farmers; most of the tribes in that area were warring tribes and through time forced this group of Monheag people east. After some time and many forced movements this group of Monheags ended up along the Quinatucquet River. Because of years of battles while losing their farms this tribe learned how to fight so when the Mashantuckets, Missituks, Niantic's, like the Mohawks long ago came to completely destroy and take the farms they, the Monheags did this destruction to them, the Dutch and them the French so the Dutch named them the Pequins the French changed the name to Pequods and the English changed it to Pequot's. Are you still with me? We are almost finished with the boring stuff! Please remember that all of this was handed down to me from time by my elders while being taught at our monthly meetings while growing up in Uncas village. When the English showed up on the Quinatucquet River Sachem Wopigwooit was the leader of the tribe, Because of his passing the people chose Sasscus as leader hoping that he would force the English back into the ocean. Sasscus like the Niantic's and the Narragansett's hated the English and was at war with them constantly. War chief Uncas Sasscus son in law tried to reason with Sasscus and the people which fell on deaf ears so he took all that wished to go with him over to the Caucheganvillage across the Pequot ( Quinatucquet) river and named them by their old name Monheags and became Sachem. When it became clear that Sachem Sasscus would not rest until the English, Niantic's, Narragansett's and all of the surrounding tribes were removed from that land they all came together and completely eliminated the Pequot tribe! The English changed this river to the Thames River and Sachem Uncas's people became known as the Mohegan's.
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Cauchegan Rock
Cochegan rock named by European settlers/Cauchegan Rock the true Mohegan name has been over looked for many years now and I liked it that way. Cauchegan rock (named after a Mohegan relation family of mine that first lived in the village) is the largest rock in Mohegan land.
The unique setting of the rock was the main reason that it was used so often as a meeting place by Uncas and his followers.
In the spring and for most of the summer, the tribe used it and the land around it, for one of their many villages. Often times, the trees would be used where they stood, to form long and roundhouses. The village was surrounded by fresh water for drinking, gardening, washing, etc., while, the nearby Pequot River provided an abundant supply of fish and clams. The Fox River has now been diverted and used elsewhere by housing development!
My Grandfather told me that the tribe would often put tables and chairs on top of Cauchegan rock when they held their meetings. This would also allow them to see anyone coming towards them from great distances, friend or foe. In the colder weather, the tribe would use the rocks and trees in the area to shelter them from the winds. The warmer weather it was a good place for gardening.
The first Pau-was of the new season would begin at the rock with fellowshipping, before going on to the Great River, the Quinatucquet River, to Pau-was with other tribes.
I have always wondered if it would not be more beneficial for one non-profit organization to share this land with other non-profit organizations and all true native elders.
This very sacred land is now being used to help young men learn about and enjoy Mother Earth.
However, every time someone talks to me about their trip to this Sacred Mohegan Land,
the first thing that they mention is the littering. Why not share the land with our elders, as well as with the Cub Scouts, Brownies and Girl Scouts? In this way, more people would be available to help clean it up, and be taught how to show respect for Mother Earth, while keeping it out of the hands of those who would shame Uncas and all of the Ancestors, by turning it into just another tourist attraction.
Attention/Now for an update,
The Sachem Uncas sacred prayer rock village has been turned over to the casino Indians so now we shall see just how long the Ancestors of New England Woodland American Natives beloved Cauchegan Rock village can remain a sacred Mohegan prayer place?
Aquine,
Sachem Walkingfox
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My cousin John E Hamilton
Lands claim chief for our people.
Because of all of the strong statements sent to me from so many people for such a long time now about one of my ancestors, Cousin John Hamilton I feel the need to write in his defense?
It would seem that because in his later years with the onset of Alzheimer's he would put on Eastern Woodland American Native Regalia and a Plains Indian head dress from what is said to be Chief Sitting Bull's and was gifted to my family by a granddaughter, then jumping on his white horse and riding around New London county claiming to be grand sachem chief of the Mohegan/Pequot people after the crossing of my father Sachem Zeak we forget about all of the good that he has done for my family and our people!
My Grandfather made John chief of land claims for life and my cousin John did spend all of that life working for the good of our people; please remember some day you may become sick!
The Golden hill Paugussett reservation has been state recognized for century the only reason that it is not federally recognized now is Connecticut's fear of losing casino money!
Moon Face Bear of the Golden hill Paugussett
Moonface Bear Is Dead at 35; Led a Tribal Uprising in
By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: May 23, 1996
Moonface Bear, a Golden Hill Paugussett Indian who led a faction of that Connecticut tribe in an armed standoff with state officials in 1993, becoming for a time a symbol of American Indian defiance of authority, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Norwich. He was 35.
The cause was leukemia, aggravated by Lyme disease, said his brother Quiet Hawk, the Paugussett's council chief.
The 13-week standoff on the tribe's reservation in Colchester in 1993 was ostensibly over the sale of untaxed cigarettes, but it was more than that. Moonface Bear, also known as Kenneth Piper, claimed he could sell tax-free cigarettes under the power of tribal sovereignty. The state, the Federal Government and his own tribal leadership all agreed that the Paugussetts did not possess that power.
The Federal Government has not recognized the Paugussetts as a sovereign nation, a status that allows tribes to create on their lands tax-free businesses like tobacco and gasoline sales and casino gambling. Moonface Bear argued that those were innate sovereign rights, there to be claimed by Indians, not granted by outsiders.
His cause drew several dozen people from around the country. At the height of the tension, they created an armed camp in the Connecticut woods, with a makeshift lookout tower where guards with rifles watched for the siege they believed would come. Moonface Bear, who claimed for himself the title of tribal war chief, surrendered when he realized the situation was out of his control and spinning toward violence, his brother said. He was represented in early legal proceedings by William M. Kunstler, the civil rights lawyer.
After years of legal argument, a judge in Connecticut ordered just last week that Moonface Bear stand trial on charges related to the standoff: the sale of 20,000 unstamped cigarettes and interfering with police business. He entered the hospital on Friday, Quiet Hawk said, after struggling privately with his illnesses for some time.
"He thought he was right and everybody was wrong," said Quiet Hawk, also known as Aurelius H. Piper Jr. "He always had a difference of opinion, whether with his father or anybody else who might disagree with him; that was his nature."
Moonface Bear was one of six children of the Paugussett's chief, Big Eagle. He grew up just outside Bridgeport, on the one-quarter-acre remnant that remained of the tribe's reservation in Trumbull, but was sent by his father to live on tribe-owned lands in the eastern part of the state in the early 1980's. From there, Moonface watched as the nearby Mashantucket Pequot Indians, who he believed had been as scattered by history as the Paugussetts, rose to vast wealth and power as owners of Foxwoods Casino.
Because the Paugussetts had intermarried in the black community over the years and had lost most of their Indian culture after decades of being scattered and urbanized, he contended that racism was partly what held his own tribe back.
Moonface Bear is survived by his wife, Misty, of Colchester, and by a daughter, Pretty Pony, and a son, Kicking Bear, both of New York City.
Of course the Golden hill Paugussett reservation's like the Pequot's is now occupied by mixed blood's from many races of people!