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Maweomi / Our Quinnipiac Heritage Legacy

Our Quinnipiac Heritage Legacy

The extraordinary legacy of our ancestral Quinnipiac Heritage can still be seen throughout our homeland (wejammoke) at the Long Water Land. Here are a few noted examples of official recognition.

The town office of North Haven has an official Seal which shows the pictographic status symbol (of a bow and arrow) used by Mantowese, Sachem of the Northern Quinnipiacs. This sub-sachemship included North Haven, Wallingford, Cheshire and Meriden). With this sign is a depiction of a Quinnipiac landmark known then as Rabbit Rock but today as Peter Rock.

The website of the Office of New Haven’s Mayor has a History of New Haven page which begins with two paragraphs about the Quinnipiac and shows a painting of East Rock (one of the three most sacred landmarks of the Quinnipiac) with a village of wigwams of the Quinnipiac in the foreground.

The Fort Nathan Hale / Black Rock Fort / Fort Wooster website shows this photo of the Quinnipiac Memorial and the Fort Wooster Historical Marker (for closeups of both the memorial and the marker, see this page). The Quinnipiac Memorial is a granite tribute to our heritage. The Fort Wooster Historical Marker is a double-sided sign provided by the Connecticut Historical Commission. It gives a synopsis of our heritage and legacy. The dedication of the memorial and sign/marker was attended by the Mayor, Parks Department and State employees such as Ed Sarabia of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and Coordinator of the Indian Affairs Department.

Another official Historical Marker dedicated by the Connecticut Historical Commission sits on the Guilford Green. It honors the heritage of the Menunkatuck and Squaw Sachem Shaumpishuh.

Although these markers are an act of official state acknowledgment of our ancestral legacy, they are nonetheless fraught with errors. Iron Thunderhorse provides scholarly corrections of those mistakes in Factual Errors in State Historical Markers.

Quinnipiac University’s website also begins with a page dedicated to our ancestral place-name and today we are working with them closely. Our Quinnipiac Legacy and Ancestral Heritage continues to survive and can readily be seen in numerous Place and Organization Names.

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