A coalition of conservationists, townspeople, researchers, and tribal authorities came together to save 14 Acres of Indigenous Stonework at Manitou Hassannash Preserve in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Join me at the site as we focus in on an Indigenous Boulder & Stone Assemblage which dating suggests could be about 500 years old!
This new offering in the series of short video presentations focused on individual stone features of interest heads to this specially preserved Ceremonial Stone Landscape in Rhode Island. There is a lot packed in here. For viewers new to the idea of Indigenous Stonework in what's now New England, this latest installment provides links to sources and references, hopefully enabling easy follow-up research for the curious.
Links:
https://www.stonestructures.org/index.html
https://www.stonestructures.org/html/canonchet.html
https://www.clresearch.org/home https://www.clresearch.org/past-projects
https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com
https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2022/01/inventory-of-stone-features-hopkinton.html
Our Hidden Landscapes (Excerpt and Order Link): https://uapress.arizona.edu/2023/10/excerpt-from-our-hidden-landscapes
These Ancient Stone Mysteries of New England - Feature Focus presentations provide a look at stonework and related subjects in short, informed doses, filled with footage, photos and related facts and speculation. These are new "compilations", with all-new writing and narrating, created using both seen and previously unseen work from my archives.
The footage and photos of Manitou Hassannash Preserve are from a visit there in March of this year. Many Thanks Again to Harvey Buford for the tour of that special place! Thanks as well to Researcher Tim MacSweeney (Waking Up On Turtle Island) for sharing links to Online Resources after seeing photos of the Boulder & Stone feature shared on Facebook.
There are credited pages briefly shown, for reference, from Ceremonial Landscapes Research, Waking Up On Turtle Island & "Land of a Thousand Cairns" Master List. A public domain illustration appears in the video, credit follows. Aside from these, most everything else is my work, except for the music, which is by Kevin MacLeod, with official credits below.
Music Credits:
Spirit of the Girl by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4407-spirit-of-the-girl
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Healing by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3860-healing
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Public Domain Image:
Title: An Indian welcome on Charles River
Reproduction (half-tone) of painting by R.R. Wand.
Copyright, 1905, by John D. Morris & Company.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022645505/
Library of Congress
An Indigenous Boulder & Stone Assemblage in Hopkinton, Rhode Island