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Culluloo Telewana Monument

A stone monument in Woodsburgh remembers Culluloo Telewana and invites a closer look at the misleading idea of the “last” Native person. A monument can preserve a person’s name while repeating ideas that obscure a people’s survival. Reading this inscription critically makes room for both remembrance and the continuing lives of Native communities. The Culluloo monument stands on a small triangle at Wood and Keene lanes in Woodsburgh. Its inscription, dated 1888, records Abraham Hewlett’s remembrance of a man he knew in childhood. The monument was first placed in Woodmere and later moved to Woodsburgh. Culluloo monument on a postcard mailed in 1907. Published by B. H. Booth, Woodmere; postcard postmarked August 20, 1907. Scan: Eternal Loot. Image source ; Public domain in the United States . Display copy resized. The 1888 Inscription Here lived and died Culluloo Telewana, A.D.1818 the last...