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North Andover Reads Fall 2021: Massachusetts

Resources

Stevens Memorial Library's Indigenous Peoples' Month Book Display - Book recommendations for various ages in all formats.
The North American Indian Center of Boston - NAICOB's mission is "to empower the Native American community with the goal of improving the quality of life of Indigenous peoples."
The Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness - MCNAA's mission is to preserve Native American cultural traditions; to assist Native American residents with basic needs and educational expenses; to advance public knowledge and understanding that helps dispel inaccurate information about Native Americans; and to work towards racial equality by addressing inequities across the region.
National Museum of American Indian - As part of the Smithsonian, there are a large amount of resources available online.
Native American and Indigenous Studies - UMass Boston's field of study and program information.
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) - NAISA is "an interdisciplinary, international membership-based organization, comprised of scholars working in the fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies, broadly defined."
Tolerance.org - How to teach hard history

Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in Plain Sight
"An online brochure about some of the "Unexamined History" of the both the town and congregation of the North Parish of North Andover, Massachusetts. It includes information about the Pennecook, who lived here on this land before the English arrived.

North Parish, now a Unitarian Universalist congregation, was once a Puritan congregation known as the First Church of Christ at Cochichawicke and was the founding congregation of the town 375 years ago, in 1645. Our 375th anniversary as a congregation is this Oct. 24th; the 375th anniversary of the town is next year, 2021. This brochure covers four "chapters" of our history.

Many in our town and perhaps schools are at least vaguely aware of North Andover’s connection to the so-called "Salem" witch trials, but we have found that fewer are aware of the history of the indigenous people, slavery in small town New England, or the forms of institutional segregation that continued to separate and alienate Black and white Americans after slavery was ended in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This brochure offers examples of this history, gleaned from congregational and historical records."
- Rev. Lee Bluemel
Minister, North Parish of North Andover, Unitarian Universalist

North Andover Historical Society's Native American History - "The area known today as the Merrimack Valley was named for the Merrimack River (Merroh Awke “the strong place or “place of swift waters”) by the Pennacook people who lived here before the arrival of Europeans."

the Pennacook Tribe

North Andover Historical Society's Native American History - "The area known today as the Merrimack Valley was named for the Merrimack River (Merroh Awke “the strong place or “place of swift waters”) by the Pennacook people who lived here before the arrival of Europeans."

Hidden in Plain Sight
"An online brochure about some of the "Unexamined History" of the both the town and congregation of the North Parish of North Andover, Massachusetts. It includes information about the Pennecook, who lived here on this land before the English arrived.

North Parish, now a Unitarian Universalist congregation, was once a Puritan congregation known as the First Church of Christ at Cochichawicke and was the founding congregation of the town 375 years ago, in 1645. Our 375th anniversary as a congregation is this Oct. 24th; the 375th anniversary of the town is next year, 2021. This brochure covers four "chapters" of our history.

Many in our town and perhaps schools are at least vaguely aware of North Andover’s connection to the so-called "Salem" witch trials, but we have found that fewer are aware of the history of the indigenous people, slavery in small town New England, or the forms of institutional segregation that continued to separate and alienate Black and white Americans after slavery was ended in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This brochure offers examples of this history, gleaned from congregational and historical records."
- Rev. Lee Bluemel
Minister, North Parish of North Andover, Unitarian Universalist

Legends of America: the Pennacook Tribe - This resource provides the history and information of the Pennacook Tribe
First Nations: Issues of Consequence: The Pennacook Tribe - This resource provides the history and information of the Pennacook Tribe