Stockbridge-Munsee Community

Over the weekend, hundreds of members of the Wisconsin-based Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican community made the long trek east to hold a powwow in Lenox, Massachusetts. As WAMC Berkshire Bureau Chief Josh Landes reports, the ongoing return to ancestral homelands comes after centuries of painful waiting.

Centuries ago, the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican people were driven out of their homelands in the Northeast by European colonists. A powwow in Lenox this weekend will continue the community’s work to reestablish millennia-old ties with the region.

One quarter of Massachusetts’ 351 communities have signed on to a grassroots campaign calling for the state flag’s controversial iconography to be changed. The activists behind the push claim Gov. Maura Healey is dragging her feet on finding a new state emblem.

This weekend, for the first time in 200 years, the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians will hold a powwow on their ancestral homelands in New Lebanon, New York.

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A representative of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians visited the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts Thursday to officially accept repatriated artifacts.

An island nature preserve near downtown Albany is back in the hands of descendants of its original inhabitants.Four centuries after its Mohican…