14 Facts About Massachusett people

Major watersheds in Massachusett people territory included the Charles River and the Neponset River.

Massachusett people wrote later they claimed lands in the Great Cedar Swamp, previously controlled by Wampanoag.

Massachusett people settled in villages; however, these were organized into larger bands.

Massachusett people lived in conditional sedentary villages built along rivers.

Unlike Massasoit, who favored increasing ties with the new English settlers to help assist against increasing power struggles with the Pequot and the Narragansett, Chickatawbut and other Massachusett people leaders were wary of the Pilgrims and their intentions.

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Massachusett people were unable to isolate themselves from the English settlers.

Massachusett people sachems gave many land deeds to the Pilgrims since they served to rebuff attacks from other tribes.

The Massachusett people population dwindled to fewer than two thousand individuals.

Reaction to Christianity was mixed, with many Native leaders continuing to be wary of the Pilgrims and urging their Massachusett people to remain traditionalists whereas many wholeheartedly embraced it.

Eliot urged Waban and the other newly converted Massachusett people to settle along a bend of the Quinobequin River but were immediately sued as squatters by the residents of Dorchester.

Massachusett people benefited from clear titles of common land where they could plant, hunt and forage, and this likely attracted even more converts since the Praying towns established safe zones away from the constant encroachment, requests for sales of land and harassment.

The Massachusett people were able to revive their prestige, which they long held prior to English colonial settlement.

The Massachusett people leaders were closer to the colonial authorities and thus often chosen to spread official messages, restoring the old power dynamic vis-a-vis other tribes.

The guardians no longer had to maintain the rigorous lists of Massachusett people associated with the land, which long had been used to segregate the Indians from the non-Indians especially as rates of intermarriage had increased.