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Letter: Facts About Standing Rock and Indigenous People as We Celebrate Thanksgiving

[Editor’s note: The following is a letter to the editor from JP’s Ken Sazama.]

Who Lived Here First?
The Massachusett people lived in the general Boston area. They were called “people of the great hills”, a reference to the Blue Hills.

Going from East to West, the Wampanoag, Moheagan and Mohican tribes also lived and thrived in what we now know as Massachusetts.