| 词条 | Massaco |
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Anthropologist John Reed Swanton believed that the Massaco was a subdivision of the Wappinger people.[1] The Massaco were first encountered by Dutch settlers at the beginning of the 17th century, who referred to the river where they dwelt as the Massaco. Over time, the term Massaco came to refer to the indigenous peoples, the river itself, the village occupied by the indigenous peoples, and the land adjacent to the river.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} The area known as Massaco was transferred to European settlers, when a local Native man, Manahanoos, burnt a large quantity of tar belonging to John Griffin. Manahanoos was arrested and fined 500 fathoms, or 914.4 meters, of wampum. The local Indians did not possess that vast quantity of wampum, so the sachem, or political leader, of the native community deeded the land to Griffin. The "Massaco Division" included the lands around the towns of Canton and Simsbury, as well as parts of Granby, Connecticut.[3] See also
Notes1. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Swanton|first1=John Reed|title=The Indian Tribes of North America|date=2007|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company|location=Baltimore, MD|isbn=978-0-8063-1730-4|pages=45–46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpx6WoPz7xIC&lpg=PA46&dq=Massaco%20Indians&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q=Massaco&f=false}} 2. ^De Forest 53 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Spiess|first1=Matthias|title=Connecticut circa 1625: Its Indian Trails, Villages, and Sachemdoms"|url=https://archive.org/stream/connecticutcirca00nati/connecticutcirca00nati_djvu.txt|publisher=The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Connecticut|accessdate=12 May 2016|date=1934}} References
2 : Native American history of Connecticut|Algonquian ethnonyms |
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