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Nanepashemet (died 1619) was the leader, or Great Sachem, of the Pawtucket Confederation of Indian tribes before the landing of the Pilgrims. He ruled over a large part of what is now Northeastern Massachusetts. His wife and sons governed the tribe after his death, during the Great Migration to New England by the English Puritans. ==Biography== By c. 1607, Nanepashemet controlled the lands from the Charles River of present-day Boston, north to the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth and west to the Concord River. His influence stretched north to the Pennacook tribe which inhabited the White Mountains region of present-day New Hampshire. As a tribal area, Pawtucket consisted of several territories: Winnisemet (around present-day Chelsea, Massachusetts), Saugus or Swampscott (Lynn), Naumkeag (Salem) (see Naumkeag people), Agawam (Ipswich), Pentucket (Haverhill), from the coast going up the Merrimack. Daniel Gookin includes Piscataqua (Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Eliot, Maine) and Accominta (York, Maine) in the Pawtucket alliance.〔Stewart-Smith, D. (2002). The Pennacook Lands and Relations: Family Homelands. In 〕 Other sources name Mishawum (Charlestown, Massachusetts), Mistic (Medford, Massachusetts), Musketaquid (Concord, Massachusetts) and Pannukog (Concord, New Hampshire) as Pawtucket territory. Nanepashemet was respected by his people as a warrior and a leader. His name was translated as "the Moone God" by Roger Williams' ''A Key Into the Language of America''.,〔 Reprint of a book first published in 1643.〕 although most historical accounts translate it to mean "New Moon" (e.g., see B. B. Thatcher, 1839). Nanepashemet's tribe caught fish, dug shellfish and raised corn on the Marblehead peninsula. In 1617, he sent a party of warriors to aid the Penobscot tribe in their conflict with the Tarrantines of northern Maine. The Tarrantines were a warlike band, who did not practice agriculture and who supplemented the food supplies that were not obtained by hunting with raids on the stores of bands who resided along the New England coast and its tidal rivers. They sent war parties to avenge the support of Nanepashemet for their Penobscot enemies. Sensing danger, Nanpashemet built a log fort near the Mystic River in present-day Medford. He directed his wife and children to move inland to reside with friendly Indian bands until the crisis passed. In 1618, an epidemic of smallpox decimated his band, but he was spared because of his isolation in the fort. By 1619, the Tarrantines discovered his whereabouts, laid siege to the fort and ultimately killed Nanepashemet. Two years later, a party from the Plymouth Colony including Edward Winslow came across his fort and his grave.〔 Reprint of the original version.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nanepashemet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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