Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in width and 8 inches in height.
Date: 1944-08-00
Language: English
Coverage: Turtle Back, East Hampton, N.Y. (Town)
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The reverse reads:
"Though living only fourteen miles apart the Shinnecocks and the Montauks have rarely intermingled socially. The Shinnecocks accepted Negroes into their midst and inter-married freely with them. The Montauks as a tribe rejected inter-marriage with Negroes and have always remained aloof from the Shinnecocks.
In August of 1944, the first Pow Wow since pre-colonial days was held at Turtle Back near Springy Banks in East Hampton. The occasion was the signing of a Peace Treaty between the Montauks and their one time enemies the Narragansetts of Rhode Island.
The Federated Eastern Indian League sponsored the affair and the go-between were Chief Swimming Eel, lately deceased Schaghticoke Sachem of Connecticut and Red Thunder Cloud author of this series.
The Narragansett delegation consisted of Chief Sachem Night Hawk, Chief Roaring Bull, Mrs. Minnie Dove, Princess Teatta, Princess Pretty Flower, Prophet Eagle Eye, and Owl's Head and Chief Pine Tree. The Montauks were represented by Chief Buckskin, Charles Butler, Princess Occum (Eliza Beaman), Poniute III (Robert Butler and Olive Pharoah, daughter of Samuel Wiuncombone Pharoah.
Holes were dug five feet apart and Chief Roaring Bull buried the Tomahawk for the Narragansetts and Chief Buckskin for the Montauks while 200 interested spectators watched the interesting proceedings. Roaring Bull then performed the Narragansett War Dance and Poniute III, Montauk offered the Montauk version of the War Dance. Members of both tribes then set down to a meal of Quahog Chowder And Corn Bread prepared by Prophet Eagle Eye of the Narragansetts.
Chief Thunder Bird, Shinnecock and his family attended their affair but did not participate in the ceremonies. Charles Butler and his nephew, Poniute insisted that their affair was strictly between the Montauks and the Narragansetts. The author was able with some effort to get the Montauks and the Narragansetts to pose for this photo. Notice the scowls on the faces of the two Butlers on the left.
Chief Thunder Bird, wife and daughter are in the center, two other daughters are kneeling in the foreground. Second from far right is Olive Pharoah, Montauk, Mrs. Eliza Beaman, Montauk and lady between Mrs. Beaman is Mrs. Samuel Pharoah, Shinnecock who was Olive Pharoah's mother."
