Tripping on Travel: Webster Lake vol 5 (final)

This footage begins with a drive down, and back, on Union Point Rd. It ends with footage as I travel down Memorial Beach Dr and I stop in a parking space near the water. While there is certainly a lot of well maintained beauty on Webster Lake, the lasting impression on me in this final volume of the series is the contrast between today's residents on the lake and the Nipmuc tribe that use to occupy the land, and depend on it's natural resources to thrive. The fact is, the decimation of the Nipmucs and their culture has been so thorough, that they were denied federal recognition in 2004, even while the State of Massachusetts did recognize them. European colonists in the 1600s, according to Wikipedia, "carried diseases, such as smallpox, to which the Native Americans had no immunity, and tribes in New England suffered high mortality rates to these infectious diseases. After the colonists encroached on their land, negotiated fraudulent land sales and introduced legislation designed to encourage further European settlement, many Nipmuc joined Metacomet's war against colonial expansion, known as King Philip's War, in 1675, though they were unable to defeat the colonists. Many of the Nipmuc were interned on Deer Island in Boston Harbor and died of disease and malnutrition, while others were executed or sold into slavery in the West Indies." I also came across the remains of a New York Times article from the year 1900. Not the actual article, a brief summary of it, in which their tribal name is misquoted as "Nipunk". The story reports on a 105 year old woman, one of the last survivors of the tribe, named as Lucy Boston Johnson, who allegedly committed suicide by deliberately starting a fire in her home because she was going to be sent to the Town Farm to live and she refused to accept charity.

References:

New York Times, year of 1900, "Suicide was 105 Years Old"
https://greenerpasture.com/Places/ShowNews/11615

Wikipedia, the Nipmuc or Nipmuck people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipmuc

15 Best Things to do in Webster, Mass
https://www.thecrazytourist.com/15-best-things-to-do-in-webster-ma/

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