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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

1675 King Philip's War

			1677 Surviving Indians confined to Praying Towns

1689 King William's War begins

			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

1824 Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times"

			1829 William Apes publishes "A Son of the Forest"

1831 Mohegan Church built

			1835 Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.

1839 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches

			1841 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"

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

			1869 Massachusetts enfranchises Indians

1875 Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn

			1924 American Indians granted citizenship and the right to vote

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

			2001 Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains

2002 Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed.

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