Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in height and 8 inches in width.
Date: 1895-00-00
Language: English
Coverage: Unknown
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The reverse reads:
"In 1765, the Montauks of Long Island, together with the Narragansetts of Rhode Island, the Pequots, Mohegans, Niantics and Tunxis of Connecticut, moved from their old homes to the Oneida Indians of New York who had given them a tract of land to settle on. These were the full bloods who removed to prevent inter-marriages with runaway slaves and who wished to retain their racial purity.
These six tribes were led by David Fowler, Montauk and Samson Occum, Mohegan. They named their village Brothertown, and although they all spoke related Algonkian dialects, they adopted the English language and New England town government. They remained in their New York State home until 1832 at which time they became dissatisfied with their condition among the whites and purchased 28,000 acres of land from the Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin and moved out there by steamers via lake Erie.
Their descendants till this day still live in Brothertown, Wisconsin on the east shores of Lake Winnebago in Calumet County, Wisconsin. This is Lathrop Fowler as he looked in 1895. This photo has value since it reveals that the Fowlers of Wisconsin have retained the same type of facial structure as the Fowlers still living in East Hampton, Long Island (December 7, 1962).
Norris, William and George Fowler of East Hampton are all full blood types. The Fowler name is also a family name at the Mohegan Indian settlement at Mohegan Hill, Connecticut where, a full blooded Montauk from Long Island married a full blood Mohegan woman in the last century."
