Awashonks

Awashonks

Awashonks (also spelled Awashunckes, Awashunkes or Awasoncks) was a female sachem (chief) of the Sakonnet Indian tribe in Seconet, Rhode Island. She signed the Plymouth Agreement of 1671. She supported Metacomet during King Philip's War, but later made peace with the English colonists. [ [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/awashonks.php Brooklyn Museum] article "Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art - The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Awashonks" Last updated March 21, 2007.]

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*http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/rhodeisland/press/press3310.html says "The conservation values of Treaty Rock Farm are ecological, agricultural and historical. The farm has been in this local Richmond family for over 350 years. A rocky outcrop on the farm marks the spot where Awashonks, a Sakonnet sachem, and Benjamin Church, a colonist, joined forces in King Philip’s War. The farm extends from a cobble shore on the Sakonnet River across coastal shrub land, hay fields, pastures and woodland east to West Main Road. The farm has been in continuous agricultural use since the time Awashonks and Church forged their alliance at Treaty Rock."


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