Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Talk
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United StatesSamson Occom: Indigenous Sovereignty in Revolutionary Connecticut In an age of political upheaval, Samson Occom (1723-1792) helped chart a new course for the Native communities of the Northeast. Occom grew up a Mohegan immersed in his people’s traditional lifeways, and worked to reinvent those lifeways in a world transformed by colonialism. Occom rose to international […]