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Map: chapter 1 "The Green Mountain Frontier: Conflict,
Coexistence, and Migration", pgs. 4 & 5.
1 Agawam, an Indian village on the Connecticut River near Springfield, Massachusetts. Communities of the same name were located at Ipswich and at Wareham, Massachusetts. Glossary of Indian Groups and Communities, pg 301 1 |
| Agawams of Indian's orchard. | Before the English came to the Connecticut River Valley the area was inhabited by the Agawam Indians. The Agawams of the Algonquin culture were subjects of the Pocumtuck Confederacy. |
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Lesson Two Native Peoples in New England |
The Connecticut River Valley was a vital crossroads for Native peoples of the Northeast. Settlements lined the middle Connecticut River. In addition to the Pocumtuck, the Norwottuck homeland lay near Northampton and Hadley, the Sokokis near Northfield, the Agawams around Agawam, Woronocos near West Springfield, and the Nipmuc homeland lay in central Massachusetts. These peoples were linked culturally, linguistically, politically, and through kinship. |
| King Philip's War in New England | The bloodiest war in America's history, on a per capita
basis, took place in New England in 1675. ...the Agawam tribe. This tribe had been peaceful but became hostile after settlers took some of their children as hostages as a precautionary move against an attack. |
| Nipmuc Place Names of New England | Agawam, Hampden County and Plymouth County - "low land" or "overflowed by water;" also, "place to unload canoes". The Agawams were a Nipmuc band in present-day Springfield. Metawampe (alias Nettawassawet, was a leader of the Agawams. The Agawams may have been part of the Quabaug band. |
| Footnotes | |
| 1 "The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800", "War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People", By Colin G. Calloway. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman. Return | |
