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			1524 Verrazano explores NE coast

1603 Martin Pring explores NE coast

			1614 John Smith maps New England

1616 An epidemic of uncertain cause devastates southern New England.

			1628 Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass)

1629 Plymouth colonists estabish a trading post at Cushnoc on the Kennebec River in Maine.

			1633 Small pox epidemic further decimates coastal Indian groups.

1635 Roger Williams founds Providence, RI

			1637 Pequot War

1646 Massachusetts begins to establish "praying towns"

			1654 Harvard establishes Indian College

1660 Mashpee established as a Christian Indian town
			1660 - 1725 A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations.

1662 The Wampanoag sachem Wamsutta dies mysteriously.

			1675 King Philip's War

1677 Surviving Indians confined to Praying Towns

			1685 Simon Popmonit becomes minister at Mashpee

1689 King William's War begins
			1689 Abenaki kill Richard Waldron in Dover, NH

1702 Queen Anne's War begins

			1704 Deerfield Massacre

1725 Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket

			1739 King George's War begins

1745 Pigwackets in exile in Massachusetts

			1760 Reuben Cognehew carries Mashpee petition to London

1772 Paul Revere engraves a "portrait" of King Philip

			1814 Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket"

1824 Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times"
			1824 A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison published

1826 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans"

			1827 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish"
1827 Catharine Sedgwick, "Hope Leslie, or Early Times in Massachusetts"

			1829 William Apes publishes "A Son of the Forest"
1829 First performance of "Metamora"

			1830 Indian Removal Act

1831 Mohegan Church built

			1833 Indian Declaration of Independence

1835 Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.

			1836 William Apess. Eulogy on King Philip

1839 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches

			1841 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"

1851 J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut"

			1858 Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence.

1860 Matthew Brady photographs Edwin Forrest as "Metamora"

			1868 Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House"

1869 Massachusetts enfranchises Indians

			1875 Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn

1880 Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield

			1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"

1915 Frank G. Speck, "Decorative Art of the Indian Tribes of Connecticut"

			1924 American Indians granted citizenship and the right to vote

1931 Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan.

			1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

1992 The Last of the Mohicans filmed

			1998 Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Opens

2001 Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains

			2002 Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed.

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