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Wonalancet (Sachem)
Wonalancet (16191697) also spelled Wannalancet and Wannalancit and probably Wanaloset and Wanalosett — was a sachem or Sagamore (title), sagamore of the Pennacook, Penacook Indians. He was the son of Passaconaway. Biography Wonalancet was born 1619 after one of the worst epidemics in human history killed 75-90% of the populations of the indigenous peoples of New England. He was supposedly born near Pawtucket Falls (Massachusetts), Pawtucket Falls in what is now Lowell, Massachusetts, where his father was politically active trying to bring political stability among allies. He was most likely the second son of his father, Passaconaway, whose Pennacook, Penacook or Pennacook confederation of Upper Merrimack bands was at the time closely allied with the Pawtucket tribe, Pawtucket confederation of bands along the lower Merrimack (as well as the coastal tribes from the North Shore to the Saco in Maine). The previous "bashaba," or "chief of chiefs" of the alliance had been Nanepashemet, ...
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Sachem
Sachems and sagamores are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois. The two words are anglicizations of cognate terms (c. 1622) from different Eastern Algonquian languages. The sagamore was a lesser chief elected by a single band, while the sachem was the head or representative elected by a tribe or group of bands. The positions are elective, not hereditary. Etymology The Oxford English Dictionary found a use from 1613. The term "Sagamore" appears in Noah Webster's first ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' published in 1828, as well as the 1917 ''Webster's New International Dictionary''. One modern source explains: According to Captain Ryan Ridge, who explored New England in 1614, the Massachusett tribes called their kings "sachems" while the Penobscots (of present-day Maine) used the term "sagamos" (anglicized as "sagamore"). Conversely, Deputy Governor Thomas Dudley of ...
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Wonalancet, New Hampshire
Wonalancet is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in the northwestern corner of the New England town, town of Tamworth, New Hampshire, Tamworth in Carroll County, New Hampshire, Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. Many popular hiking trails into the Sandwich Range of the White Mountains (New Hampshire), White Mountains have trailheads in the area, particularly in the locale known as Ferncroft, New Hampshire, Ferncroft, up a short spur road from Wonalancet. The village is named for the 17th century Pennacook sachem Wonalancet (sachem), Wonalancet. Wonalancet has a separate ZIP code (03897) from the rest of Tamworth. References External linksWonalancet Out Door Club
Unincorporated communities in New Hampshire Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, New Hampshire Tamworth, New Hampshire New Hampshire placenames of Native American origin {{NewHampshire-geo-stub ...
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Tribal Chiefs
A tribal chief or chieftain is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom. Tribe The concept of tribe is a broadly applied concept, based on tribal concepts of societies of western Afroeurasia. Tribal societies are sometimes categorized as an intermediate stage between the band society of the Paleolithic stage and civilization with centralized, super-regional government based in cities. Anthropologist Elman Service distinguishes two stages of tribal societies: simple societies organized by limited instances of social rank and prestige, and more stratified societies led by chieftains or tribal kings (chiefdoms). Stratified tribal societies led by tribal kings are thought to have flourished from the Neolithic stage into the Iron Age, albeit in competition with urban civilisations and empires beginning in the Bronze Age. In the case of tribal societies of indigenous peoples existing within larger colonial and post-colonial states, tribal chiefs may represent their tribe or eth ...
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Pennacook People
The Pennacook, also known by the names Penacook and Pennacock, were an Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine. They were not a united tribe but a network of politically and culturally allied communities. Penacook, New Hampshire, Penacook was also the name of a specific Native village in what is now Concord, New Hampshire. The Pennacook were related to but not a part of the original Wabanaki Confederacy, which includes the Miꞌkmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot peoples. David Stewart-Smith argues that the Penacook are Central Abenaki people. Name Pennacook is also written as Penacook and Pennacock. The name ''Pennacook'' roughly translates (based on Abenaki cognates) as "at the bottom of the hill." Territory Their southern neighbors were the Massachusett and Wampanoag people, Wampanoag to the south. Pennacook territory bordered the Connecticut River ...
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17th-century Native Americans
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 ( MDCI), to December 31, 1700 ( MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French ''Grand Siècle'' dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easily k ...
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Native American Leaders
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People Of Colonial New Hampshire
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1697 Deaths
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1610s Births
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Wonalancet (other)
Wonalancet may refer to: * Wonalancet (sachem), a 17th-century Native American chief of the Penacook people * Wonalancet, New Hampshire, an unincorporated community in the town of Tamworth in Carroll County * Wonalancet River, a short river in central New Hampshire and tributary of the Swift River * Mount Wonalancet, elevation , in the Sandwich Range of the White Mountains, overlooking the Ferncroft neighborhood of Wonalancet Alternative spellings *Wannalancit Mills, a textile-mill-turned-office-building which uses a variant spelling of Wonalancet, in Lowell, Massachusetts, which was an important fishing ground for the Pennacook * Wannalancit Street Historic District in Lowell *Wannalancit Lodge, Order of the Arrow lodge for the Greater Lowell Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Also the name of a former cabin located at Wah-tut-ca Scout Reservation of the Yankee Clipper Council, previously of the Greater Lowell Council. * 1867 Wannalancet Steam Fire Engine Company #1, Malden, Ma ...
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Mount Wonalancet
Mount Wonalancet is a mountain in the town of Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, overlooking the unincorporated communities of Wonalancet and Ferncroft. It is named after Wonalancet, a 17th-century sachem of the Pennacook, a Native American people. Mount Wonalancet lies in Grafton County, immediately west of the Carroll County border, the county in which Ferncroft and Wonalancet are located. To its immediate north and sharing the same massif is Hibbard Mountain. The pair lie between popular Mount Chocorua to the east, Mount Passaconaway to the north, and Mount Whiteface to the west. Along with Mount Paugus, due east, the group makes up the easternmost mountains of the Sandwich Range, the southernmost of the White Mountains. To the south, the Sandwich Range is bordered by the Ossipee Mountains immediately north of Lake Winnipesaukee. The most popular access is via the Mast Trail out of the Ferncroft parking area. See also * List of mountains of New Hampshire List of Mou ...
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Wonalancet River
The Wonalancet River is a river in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. Named after the 17th-century Pennacook sachem Wonalancet, it is a tributary of the southern Swift River, part of the Bearcamp River / Ossipee Lake / Saco River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean. The Wonalancet River rises in the heart of the Sandwich Range, in "The Bowl", a forested glacial cirque lying between Mount Whiteface to the west, Mount Passaconaway to the north, and Mount Wonalancet to the east. The river flows south, paralleled by the Dicey Mill Trail, out of the mountains into the communities of Ferncroft, in the southwest corner of the town of Albany, and Wonalancet, in the northwest corner of the town of Tamworth. The river continues east into a forested valley and joins the Swift River northwest of Tamworth village. See also *List of rivers of New Hampshire This is a list of rivers and significant streams in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. All watercours ...
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