Unveiling Nehantic: The Hidden Secrets in Dr. John E. Pfeiffer’s Coloring Masterpiece
However, contact with Europeans during the 16th and 17th centuries led to a devastating Native population reduction from epidemics. This devastation was followed by seizure of Native territory, an erosion of traditional life, relocation upon a reservation, and ultimately, a Nehantic diaspora.
In modern memory, white America has had an unclear view of the Nehantic. Numerous inscriptions upon stone markers, titles of books, and various museum and historical society programs demonstrate such misunderstandings. Terms such as “Tribe Extinct”, “Who were the Nehantic?”, “Last of the Nehantics”, “Remembering the Nehantics”, have all been applied over the last century creating an image of a people that are indeed, gone – no more than a figment of the past.
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