Join Christine DeLucia, Rhonda Anderson, and Larry Spotted Crow Mann in an on online conversation on Native American and British/Anglo-American “ownership” of hilltown land.
Friday February 18, 2022, 7:00-8:30 pm, Zoom
How did the land recruit you? How has it recruited others and who were they? What ties people to a place? What is land ownership? How did those who own land today, come to do so? Who was here before and when British and American settlers arrived and what brought them here? Did European settlement mean a complete break with the past for Native Americans? What are the relationships and connections that they have had and have now with the places we now call Plainfield and Cummington?
Christine DeLucia is Associate Professor of History at Williams College, and Rhonda Anderson and Larry Spotted Crow Mann are Co-Directors of the Ohketeau Cultural Center in Ashfield.
This event was hosted by Plainfield Reads, along with the Plainfield Historical Society, Earthdance, and the Plainfield Congregational Church. It was funded in part by Mass Humanities and the Plainfield Cultural Council, both funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
