A Walk Around Yarmouth’s Indian Reservation 1714 – 1779

For thousands of years the southern shore of Cape Cod where the indigenous peoples lived, from Bass River to Mashpee, was known as the South Seas, where the Mattacheese and Pawkunnawkut Tribes lived. In 1713 the Yarmouth Proprietor’s laid out a 160-acre reservation
for the indigenous peoples of Yarmouth to live upon. This confined area was their home for 65-years. Join Wampanoag/Nipmuc Marcus Hendricks and historian Bob Kelley on this walk around the boundaries of this one-time reservation, with discussion about the Pre-contact
period to 1600, the creation of reservation in 1714, Chief Nauhaught, Sarah’s swamp, the Memorial, the effect of the smallpox and nursing Quaker’s, Thomas Greenough – the last of the Nobscusset Tribe and the demise of the Native American occupants and dissolution of the
reservation in 1779. This walk will take about two hours.

Tickets: $15 nonmembers/ $10 members
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