The native Penacook, Winnipesaukee, Pigwacket, Sokoki, Cowasuck and Ossipee tribes, collectively known as the Abenaki, once thrived along the Granite State\'s great rivers.
Discover celebrations and innovations in the good times, later European disease epidemics and hostilities and a culture\'s enduring legacy..
Learn the unwritten laws of hospitality, respect for the aged, honesty, independence and courtesy.
Historian Bruce Heald has mined, curated and saved the real story of this land\'s first people.
Influences of these "men of the east" abound today, from the boiling of sap for maple syrup to the game of lacrosse and traditional corn-and-bean succotash.
The native Penacook, Winnipesaukee, Pigwacket, Sokoki, Cowasuck and Ossipee tribes, collectively known as the Abenaki, once thrived along the Granite State\'s great rivers
