The place name Peskeompskut indicates the “split rock at the falls,” a fishing encampment and peaceful gathering place on the Connecticut River where Pocumtuck and Sokoki homelands overlapped. Today the site is known as Turners Falls, Massachusetts. People from several Indigenous nations gathered in the summer to trade and fish, socialize and hold meetings at the annual salmon and shad runs. It was considered a safe zone that people could retreat to in emergencies. However, this changed tragically when the site was attacked by English soldiers in the early morning of May 19, 1676. Those killed were women, children, and the elderly, as the men of fighting age happened to be away.