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Eight eye-opening events March-May 2026
King Philip’s War: the least known but bloodiest conflict in American history. Its story has been told by colonial victors. Award-winning historians, tribal citizens and Indigenous scholars turn that story upside down, exploring the cost of this brutal war and how we reckon with it today.
The Unknown War: An Introduction
Kevin March
Wednesday, March 11, 7-8:30pm, online
The Past is Now: An Inter-Tribal Panel
Hartman Deetz, Brad Lopes, Brittney Walley and Elizabeth Solomon
Tuesday, March 24, 6-7:30pm, live at the Cambridge Public Library + live-streamed
Surviving Slavery: The Sale of Indigenous People in King Philip’s War
Linford Fisher
Wednesday, April 8, 7-8:30pm, live at the Colonial Society of Massachusetts + live-streamed
Book club: Whose Story? Two Views of King Philip’s War
Evana Rose Tamayo
Saturday, April 18, 11am-12:30pm, and Tuesday, April 28, 7-8:30pm, online
Erasure: History and Memory in the Archives
Tricia Peone
Thursday, April 23, 7-8:30pm, online
What Really Happened at Turners Falls? The Story of a Massacre
David Brule, David Naumec and Liz Cold Wind Santana-Kiser
Wednesday, May 6, 7-8:30pm, online
Day of Remembrance: Turners Falls Battle and Massacre (in progress)
Nolumbeka Project
Saturday, May 16, times tbc, in person
The Long Legacy: The Cost and Continuance of Indigenous Resistance
Cheryll Toney Holley, Paula Peters, Mack Scott and Kimberley Toney
Thursday, May 28, 5:30-7:30pm, live at the Boston Public Library + live-streamed
Image: One of a handful of documents bearing the signature of Philip, or Metacom, sachem of the Wampanoag. Quitclaim by Philip, Rehoboth, MA, from the collections of the John Carter Brown Library. Photo courtesy of Rythum Vinoben
