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Recording of LCHS Annual Meeting 2025

A NEW HISTORY OF THE SAKONNET WAMPANOAG PEOPLE

Presented by Marjory O’Toole, LCHS Executive Director

 

New research conducted over the last fifteen years has dramatically changed and broadened our understanding of the history of the Sakonnet Wampanoag people. We’ve been learning from Wampanoag advisors and studying historic documents, the archaeological record, and the Sakonnet landscape. LCHS Executive Director Marjory O’Toole will share some of what we have learned about seventeenth-century Sakonnet sachems like Awashonks, Takamona, and Mamanuah along with lesser-known individuals from more recent times including Sue Codimonk, Moses Suckanush, and Thomas Cooper. The talk will explore the tactics Plymouth Colony employed to purchase Sakonnet against Awashonks’ will and how the Sakonnets and their Acoaxet neighbors responded to the arrival of English newcomers and then continued to live on their homelands and within neighboring Native communities.

Due to time constraints this video includes approximately half of the intended content. Look for a Zoom talk in the fall to hear the rest of the story.

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