12 Facts About Massachusett

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

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 leaders were wary of the Pilgrims and their intentions.

Massachusett were unable to isolate themselves from the English settlers.

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

The Massachusett population dwindled to fewer than two thousand individuals.

Massachusett put up little armed resistance to colonial settlement, but other Native peoples of New England who did were subjugated during and after Pequot War in 1638.

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

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

The Massachusett 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.