Spring Virtual Lecture Series: “A NEW HISTORY OF THE SAKONNET WAMPANOAG PEOPLE – Part 2”
Speaker: Marjory O’Toole
May 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
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. This second half of the talk will explore the how the Sakonnets and their Acoaxet neighbors responded to the arrival of English newcomers, established a thriving Indian Meeting House on John Dyer Road, and continued to live on their homelands , slowing moving to neighboring Native communities.
To view the first half of the talk presented at the 2025 LCHS Annual Meeting click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TgkErwEie0&t=73s
The talk begins at 11 minutes and 45 seconds.
Speaker: Marjory O’Toole
Marjory is the Executive Director of the Little Compton Historical Society. She holds an MA in Public Humanities from Brown University and is the author or editor of ten local history books.
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