Online Collection 1831 In 1828, William Apes wrote “A Son of the Forest,” the first published autobiography by a Native American.

Online Collection 1837-08-29 An 1837 newspaper article describes a visit to Deerfield, MA, by a group of Indigenous people from Canada who were descendants of a Deerfield captive taken in a 1704 raid.

Online Collection 1910–1916 Those who put on pageants such as this one in Deerfield, MA, attempted to portray a popular version of the past, but they allowed popular stereotypes and misconceptions to seep into their historical presentations.

Online Collection 1746 This thirty-line poem, in ballad form, is believed to have been written by Lucy Terry, enslaved by Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts, to commemorate the last Indigenous attack on the town.

Online Collection 1871 When this map was created in 1871, Bernardston, in Western Massachusetts, was primarily an agricultural community.

Online Collection 1837-09-05 This article from 1837 recounts a visit to Deerfield, MA, by Indigenous descendants of a captive taken during a 1704 raid on the town.

Online Collection 2004 This sculpture was carved by Steve (Silver Bear) McComber, a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) from Kahnawake, Quebec.

Online Collection 2004 This sculpture was carved by Steve (Silver Bear) McComber, a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) from Kahnawake, Quebec.

Online Collection 1837 This eulogy for King Philip (Metacom) by William Apes defied the traditional White version of King Philip’s (Metacom’s) War.

Online Collection 1905 This is the biography of Reverend John Williams (1664-1729), the first minister of Deerfield, MA, who was taken captive during a 1704 raid on the town.

Online Collection 1834 King Philip’s (Metacom’s War) was a tragic event in Native American/colonial relations. Around 800 English people died and over 3,000 Indigenous people in Southern New England lost their lives.

Online Collection 1879 A section about Deerfield, MA, in this history includes information about the area’s settlement, schools, graveyards, factories, geology, and contributions made by Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the late 19th century.

Online Collection circa 1899 This photograph is of the village at Kahnawake (Caughnawaga), Quebec, Canada.

Online Collection 1900 Boarding schools like the Hampton Institute sought not merely to educate but also to indoctrinate young Indigenous and African American students in the values and customs of White society.

Lesson In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, stories of the early colonial period in Deerfield and of the attacks were re-told in a variety of media. Students will examine these stories, photography & film from the period and late twentieth century toys for evidence of bias, point of view, and inaccuracies.

Online Collection 1910-03-13 This article in the Springfield Republican announced the presence of the Thomas A. Edison motion picture company in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where they made a film about a 1704 raid on the town.

Online Collection 1919 These paper dolls transformed the traumatic experience of English children taken captive in a 1704 raid on Deerfield, MA, into a child’s woodland adventure.

Online Collection 1875 This is an account of an attack on an Indigenous encampment at Peskeompskut (now Turners Falls, MA,) where it was estimated that between 300 and 400 Indigenous women, elderly people, and children were killed.

Online Collection 1772 Paul Revere created this “fanciful” portrait of King Philip (also known as Metacom), the leader of King Philip’s (Metacom’s) War.

Online Collection 1909–1911 This view of Mount Sugarloaf and the Pocumtuck Range reveals the mountain silhouette that Pocumtuck Indigenous people called “Wequamps” and believed was a huge beaver turned to stone.