What Really Happened at Turners Falls? The Story of a Massacre
When:
Wednesday, May 06, 2026 7:00p -
8:30p
Wednesday, May 06, 2026 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
History, Social Good
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980596687007?aff=oddtdtcreator
Colonel Turner's forces killed 300 Native people and his monument proclaimed victory. What really happened? Join this deeply informed panel discussion revealing new findings from a 13-year, National Park Service-funded investigation.
The monument to Captain William Turner, pictured here, sums up an old and perhaps familiar telling of history. We have a colonial hero, later slain in battle. Small but mighty colonial forces overcome the odds. Apparently passive "Indians" are taken by surprise. Nameless Native people are "destroyed."
How accurate is this picture of history? Not very, according to this unique panel discussion led by David Brule of the Nolumbeka Project, with archaeologist David Naumec and Liz ColdWind Santana Kiser, tribal historic preservation officer of the Chaubunagungamaug Band of Nipmuck Indians.
All three panelists were at the heart of a remarkable 13-year, National Park Service-funded project investigating the true story of the Turners Falls massacre. David Brule chaired the project from its inception in 2013.
Based on findings from battlefield terrain technologies and archaeology, the panelists will share Indigenous and archaeological/anthropological perspectives, and discuss this unique study - an on-going collaborative investigation by battlefield experts, local historical commissioners, and tribal historic preservation officers from the Nipmuck community, as well as from the Aquinnah Wampanoag, the Elnu Abenaki, and the Narragansett tribal historic preservation office.
This new historical perspective is crucial to Indigenous communities in revealing the truth about the past, contributing to healing that place, addressing certain multi-generational trauma, and, in a small way, beginning to help heal Northeastern tribal descendants.
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