Peskeompskut+Massacre+or+Battle+of+Great+Falls

Event Summary

 * Peskeomskut is the name for the waterfalls on the Connecticut River between the communities of Turners Falls and Gill, Massachusetts**


 * The Peskeomskut Massacre or the Falls Fight was a pivotal event in King Philip's War.**


 * The event unfolded when a colonial militia led a pre-dawn ambush of an Indian fishing village on the shores of the river on May 16, 1676.**

**Two Histories**

 * [[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/National_Park_Service_logo.png width="81" height="106" link="@http://www.montague.net/Pages/MontagueMA_News/0237FD5D-000F8513.0/Technical%20Report%20-%20Master%20Copy%20-%202%201%202015.pdf"]]Technical Report: Battle of Great Falls/Wissantinnewag-Peskeompskut**, American Battlefield Protection Program, National Park Service (February 2016)


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-04-21 at 9.41.22 AM.png link="@http://www.montague.net/Pages/MontagueMA_News/0237FD5D-000F8513.3/Nipmuc_Tribal_Statement.pdf"]]Remembering & Reconnecting: Nipmucs and the Massacre at Great Falls**, Chaubunagungamuug Nipmuck Historic Preservation Office (October 2015)

**Recent Dev****elopments**

 * Digging into the Peskeompskut Massacre: Archaelogical Team Takes First Step Toward Mapping Historic Montague Battle Site, Greenfield Recorder (June 4, 2015)


 * [|Joe Graveline Tells the Story of the Great Falls Massacre] (also known as the Battle of Turner's Falls).
 * Video from Greenfield Community Television is posted on the Nolumbeka Project website; scroll down the page to find the video.

**[[image:Screen Shot 2015-12-13 at 4.03.33 PM.png]]Perspectives on the Massacre**

 * Excerpt from The Turner's Falls Fight, from History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, Louis H. Everts (1879)
 * Battle of Great Falls or Massacre at Peskeompskut from blog post by Cheryll Toney Holley (June 3, 2015)


 * **Go to Grade 5.6 for more on Native/Settler Interactions during the Colonial Period**


 * Go to Democratic Teaching/Conversing for Lesson Plan on Native American Mascots**


 * Summary of American Psychological Association Resolution Recommending Retirement of American Indian Mascots (2005)**


 * Ending the Era of Harmful "Indian" Mascots, National Congress of American Indians**


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2017-06-08 at 12.54.20 PM.png link="@https://www.amazon.com/Our-Beloved-Kin-American-Modernity/dp/0300196733/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514752577&sr=1-1&keywords=our+beloved+kin+a+new+history+of+king+philip+s+war"]]Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War. Lisa Brooks, Yale University Press, 2018**