This StoryMap supports a place-based historical recovery initiative and mapping, which revisits James Cargill's murderous bounty rampage against Penobscot people in July 1755.

This virtual walking tour and map focuses on Native Spaces in Massachusett homelands, in what became the colonized place the English called Newtowne, later Cambridge. While many of the locations may be familiar landmarks, this walking tour provides a hidden historical narrative which tells a story of Massachusett survivance and settler colonialism.

This timeline covers the period between 1675-1765, spanning what are often known as the Six Anglo-Abenaki Wars. These conflicts (with the exception of the first, which we refer to as Pometacomet’s Resistance/King Philip’s War) were largely fought between colonial English and French forces for control of what is today northern New England and Eastern Canada.

This virtual walking tour and map focuses on Native Spaces in Massachusett homelands, in what became the colonized place the English called Newtowne, later Cambridge. While many of the locations may be familiar landmarks, this walking tour provides a hidden historical narrative which tells a story of Massachusett survivance and settler colonialism.