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Thanksgiving, in a perhaps romanticized version of the events as told to me by my late grandfather and former tribal historian Elmer Davids, was the result of an invitation to the colonists to join the indian's annual harvest feast to give honor and thanks to the Great Spirit for the gifts of the warm months and to seek the benevolence of the Great Spirit for the forthcoming cold winter months. Sadly, the Mohican (Mahican) language and customs have been in large part lost and forgotten. This is attributable to the contact and influence of the European settlers and missionaries which for our tribe occured much earlier than was the case for tribes west of the Mississippi. Van Cortlandt Park, in the north Bronx has a history area describing Indian Field, which is an athletic field built on a burial site of Stockbridge Indians who were ambushed and killed by British soldiers during the Revolutionary war. A plaque was put up there in 1906.
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