{"id":394,"date":"2017-11-08T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/?page_id=394"},"modified":"2017-12-10T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T21:07:44","slug":"the-sunapee-tribe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/the-sunapee-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunapee Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most every town in the\u00a0United States, Native American populations inhabited the area around Newport prior to the arrival of even the first colonial settlers. In this case, the Sunapee was the most predominant tribe in the region. There is no evidence that the Sunapee ever lived where Newport was built. However, there was one important route for the Sunapee that would pass the future site of where Newport would one day be built and that was, \u201cThe Sunapee trail, referred to as both Sugar River Trail and the Sen-nipi Trail, follows the banks of the Sugar River from Claremont to Lake Sunapee and is listed by the New Hampshire Archeological Society as one of the major Native American waterways in New Hampshire.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0Water was of central importance to the Sunapee for navigation, and the Sugar River would later prove invaluable to nineteenth century Newport.\u00a0While the Sunapee Tribe inhabited Newport for some time,\u00a0\u201cby the end\u00a0of the 1600\u2019s most of New Hampshire\u2019s native population had removed to Quebec\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>. In other words they were forced to leave due to encroaching white settlement because, \u201cby the time Newport\u2019s first settlers arrived in 1766, ninety-eight percent of the Native Americans who once lived in New Hampshire were gone.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0So far, extremely little has been discovered on the Sunapee\u2019s reactions to leaving their homeland. There were also Abenakis that traveled through the region, but little has been done on discussing them.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly this project is not focused on the Native American history of New Hampshire and Kerrin and Patrick would like to see more research done on their history not just in Newport, but throughout the the United States as well.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/newport-before-the-finns\/\">Newport Before the Finns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next Page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/first-arrival-of-white-colonial-settlers\/\">Arrival of White Colonial Settlers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Mary Lou McGuire, and Raymond Reid.\u00a0<em>Newport, New Hampshire in Time and Place <\/em>(Newport: Richards Free Library, 2017), 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> McGuire, 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> McGuire, 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most every town in the\u00a0United States, Native American populations inhabited the area around Newport prior to the arrival of even the first colonial settlers. In this case, the Sunapee was the most predominant tribe in the region. There is no evidence that the Sunapee ever lived where Newport was built. However, there was one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/the-sunapee-tribe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sunapee Tribe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9o96F-6m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}