Footprints of Our Ancestors: Interpreting Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Heritage in Massachusetts

Christine DeLucia is collaborating with the Stockbridge Munsee Band of the Mohican Indians, the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, and academic partners to develop digital resources and an in-person walking tour of Main Street in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The tribe is currently located in Wisconsin but maintains important ties to “Indian Town” (Stockbridge), where they lived in the eighteenth century before moving west as a strategic response to pressures of colonial expansion. The tribally-led project will use place-based storytelling to illuminate networks of kinship, Indigenous history and memory, and the area’s lasting significance to the Stockbridge Munsee Band of the Mohican Indians.