• Praying Indians of Natick were a community of Indigenous Christian converts, known as Praying Indians, in the town of Natick, Massachusetts, one of many...
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    tribe. The Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established under the name "Praying Indians of Natick Mother Village...
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  • Ponkapoag and Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag. Moravian Indians Mission Indians Indian Reductions Stockbridge Indians Encyclopedia.com Praying Towns;...
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    Cutshamekin, the praying Indians were subject to rules governing conformity to Puritan culture (in practice Natick, like the other praying towns, combined...
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  • language Praying Indians of Natick, 17th-century Native American Christian converts who settled in the Natick Praying Town Natick, Nebraska East Natick, Rhode...
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    Massachusett (category Native American history of Massachusetts)
    into praying towns, such as Natick and Ponkapoag (Canton). Swanton lists the following: Massachusett settlements. Conohasset, Cohasset Cowate, praying town...
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    Ponkapoag (category Native American history of Massachusetts)
    History". Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag. Retrieved 14 November 2010. Massachusetts Indian Towns, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico,...
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    1675, the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had established 14 praying towns. The first two praying towns of Natick (est. 1651) and Ponkapoag...
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  • Pawtucket tribe (category Native American history of Massachusetts)
    Naumkeag people Pennacook Praying Indians of Natick George Franklyn Willey, Willey's Book of Nutfield, page 190. "The south part of New England as it planted...
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  • Schaghticoke Indian Association and Tribal Council Natick, MA Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag, Stoughton, MA Quinsigamond Band of the Nipmucs,...
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    Nipmuc (redirect from Natick Nipmuc)
    never been out of the hands of the Nipmuc People. {} Natick Massachusett, Natick Nipmuc The descendants of the Praying town of Natick, Massachusetts do...
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    Webster/Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians, also known as the Chaubunagungamaug, Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck, Pegan or Dudley/Webster Indians, is a cultural...
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    this I know, that these Indians don't understand every word of them Indians.' An example of records from the Praying Town of Natick, written in 1700 by Thomas...
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    Cutshamekin (category Native American history of Massachusetts)
    Massachusetts before becoming one of the first leaders of the praying Indian town of Natick, Massachusetts. He is the possible namesake of Jamaica Plain. Cutshamekin...
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    descendants may be part of the Odanak First Nation in Quebec, Canada. Other descendants moved to the praying towns of Wamesit and Natick. Agawam Nashua Naumkeag...
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  • and much of the South Shore almost as far south as Plymouth. They were later confined to the Praying towns of Natick and Ponkapoag, in Natick and Canton...
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  • Alexander Quapish (category Military personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    Hands of the Natick Praying Indians. The Natick Selectmen voted just before Thanksgiving 2020 to allow the burial in what is now known as the Natick Praying...
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  • Neponset tribal member killed by colonists in 1623. Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag List of unrecognized tribes in the United States "We are the...
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    Daniel Takawambait (category Religious figures of the indigenous peoples of North America)
    and the Praying Indians," Patriot Ledger, Jun 10, 2013 "Takawambpait - Natick's First Minister". Daniel Gookin, An account of the Indians of New England...
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  • Magunkaquog (category Assimilation of indigenous peoples of North America)
    were seven principal praying towns - Magunkaquog, Natick, Punkapog, Wamesit, Hassanamesit, Nashobah, and Okommakamesit. Natick, founded in 1651, was...
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    Deer Island (Massachusetts) (category Landforms of Suffolk County, Massachusetts)
    place of internment. Christian "Praying Indians" were moved from Concord, Marlborough, Grafton, Massachusetts, and Natick in spite of the efforts of John...
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    1 km2) of what is today Natick to the "praying Indians in 1650." In return, Dedham expected the Indians to settle only on the northern bank of the Charles...
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    1650- Dedham agreed to give up 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of what is today Natick to the "praying Indians. 1651 - There are approximately 100 families in Dedham...
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  • Waban (category Native American history of Massachusetts)
    of several Indians. Eliot, John, 1604-1690, tr" https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n00266.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext Craig White, "The Praying Indians'...
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    Naumkeag people (category Native American history of Massachusetts)
    living in Naumkeag territories than Naumkeag, many of whom had relocated to Natick as praying Indians, been killed in King Philip's War, fled north to join...
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    Chaubunagungamaug Reservation (category American Indian reservations in Massachusetts)
    attempt at providing land for the Indians was the 'Praying towns' established by the missionary John Eliot, starting with Natick in 1651. Eliot petitioned the...
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    Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary (category Natick, Massachusetts)
    Eliot received permission of the Massachusetts General Court to create the town of Natick as one of the Praying Towns. Only Indians who had converted to Christianity...
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    Massachusett Indians English. He then went about learning the Algonquian Indian language of the Massachusett people so he could translate English to the Natick dialect...
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    along with Captain Wheeler and 30 mounted militia, as well as some "Natick" Praying Indian guides to negotiate with the Nipmuc sachem directly. The party made...
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  • Job Nesuton (category Translators of the Bible into indigenous languages of the Americas)
    teacher in Natick, Massachusetts, one of the Praying towns that Eliot had established for the Masschusett people of Nonantum. After the departure of Cockenoe...
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