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While looking for
information on our prayer rock Cauchegan.
Sachem Speaks on
Cauchegan
You may notice right
from the start that we, the first people in this our village pronounce the name
different then our modern conquers (Cochegan)?
This can be easily
answered, we name is after our Warrior Chief Cauchegan so name for his bravery
in battles to protect our villages by our supreme leader Unkas (Uncas)!
This is our prayer
rock (Cauchegan's) from back to the time of my ancestor Sachem Uncas and long
before first contact
as told to me many
times by my elders now ancestors.
Sachem and his
people (tribe) placed a table and some chairs ( made out of logs, branches and
skins) on the top of this rock so,
while holding
meetings they could also keep an eye out for any enemy.
From time to time
you will see our prayer rock spelled the way the Europeans misspelled it as
Cochegan Rock.
However, as was told
at our meetings, as a reward for his services, Sachem Uncas gave this land to
and set one of his
greatest warriors at
the foot of this rock, the tribe helped him, the warrior and his family,
build his
round house right into the base of the rock.
My daughter at her
birthing ceremony the prayer rock.
At their next
meeting he, Sachem Uncas, named the rock after that warriors family (Cauchegan
rock).
If you were to look
closely at this photo we took back at a tribal meeting held by then Sachem
Zeak, my father,
in the winter of
1986, photo # 6, you can still see the makings of our prayer alter.
At the foot the
rock, running close to the opening of Warrior Cauchegan's door was the river he
and the tribe would fish in the warmer weather. Photo's 1, 2, 3, and 4.
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