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The Town of Aquinnah
(previously knows as Gay Head) is unique in being the only community in
Massachusetts that continues to have a substantial Indian presence in the
20th century, a presence that continued right through the disruptions and
disasters of King Philip's War. The Indians of Aquinnah (previously knows
as Gay Head) are thought by some to be related to the mainland Wampanoag
tribe, but the natives themselves have a mythic story that describes their
arrival on Martha's Vineyard floating on an ice flow from the far North.
Whichever way they arrived, their history has been very different from that of mainland tribes. In contrast to the massacres and bloodshed in other communities during King Philip's War when many settlers abandoned their towns altogether as a result of the threat or the reality of Indian attack, in Aquinnah (previously knows as Gay Head), white settlers armed their Indian neighbors and made them the sentries and guards to warn of possible attacking tribes. This responsibility the Indians of Aquinnah (previously knows as Gay Head) carried out faithfully and there was very little if any damage done in the town during those turbulent times. The most outstanding natural feature of Aquinnah (previously knows as Gay Head) is the magnificent display of varicolored clay cliffs in strange formations which spill down to the sea on the border of the town. These cliffs marked the homeward leg of Gay Head's Indian and Yankee fishermen and whalers. Located on the western tip of Martha's Vineyard, an island 20 miles long and 10 miles wide situated five miles south of the southwest tip of Cape Cod. Aquinnah (previously knows as Gay Head) is bordered by Chilmark on the east and the Atlantic Ocean on the north, west, and south. |
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