GILL — A panel of scholars and archeologists will be discussing the conflict between Native Americans and settlers known as either the Peskeomskut massacre or the Battle of Turners Falls tonight at Northfield Mount Hermon school.
The event runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the school’s Rhodes Fine Art Center, in Raymond Hall.
The event will reconstruct the events of the day using archaeology and will include a presentation on King Philip’s War as well.
It includes a mixer from 6 to 6:30 p.m., a presentation by the Mashantucket-Pequot Museum Research Team will follow from 6:30 to 7:15, and then a panel discussion with indigenous scholars and archaeologists to follow.
The panel includes Paul Robinson, a retired state of Rhode Island archaeologist; Elizabeth James-Perry of the Wampanoag Tribe of the Gay Head/Aquinnah Tribal Historic Preservation Office; Doug Harris of the Narragansett Indian Tribal Historic Preservation Office; David Tall Pine White of the Chaubunagungamaug Band of Nipmuc Indians Tribal Historic Preservation Office; and Kevin McBride, director of Research at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center.
The event is hosted by the Battlefield Grant Advisory Board, which is a group from five Franklin County towns and four Native American tribes. It’s sponsored by the school, the Gill Historical Commission, the Montague Planning Department and the National Park Service Battlefield Protection Program.