Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 21″
One of the Indian leaders and chief of the Hurons who accompanied the French commander Hertel on the February 29th raid on Deerfield in 1704. Along with the Caughnawago Mohawk and the Abenaki, the Hurons of Lorette were strong, dependable allies of the French.
When …
Bronze edition: 15 | Length: 42″ | Height: 32″
“On the 29th of February 1704, not long before the break of day, the enemy came in like a flood upon us; our watch being unfaithful … they came to my house in the beginning of the onset, and by their violent endeavors to break open …
Bronze edition: 7 | Length: 43″
The Caughnawaga Mohawk, along with the Abenaki of St. Francis, were the nemesis of the New England frontier during the long struggle between France and England for colonial dominance (1689-1763).
Unlike their primarily pro-English brethren of the Iroquois League, these Mohawks were …
Bronze edition: 8 | Height: 24″
In many ways this was like countless skirmishes and battles which raged all along the frontier of 17th and early 18th century New England …
In the autumn of 1676 during the last great Indian resistance of New England tribes, known as “King Phillip‘s War”, a detachment of 100 …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 22″
Amrusus was a Caughnawaga Mohawk warrior who later married one of the English captives, Eunice, daughter of the Reverend John Williams of Deerfield, Massachusetts. This was by no means unique, for many unredeemed captives married into various Indian tribes during the long years of …
