Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Van Cortlandt Park — Stockbridge Memorial

At Indian Field, the Chief Nimham Memorial remembers Native soldiers killed fighting for the American cause on August 31, 1778. David Bunn Martine’s painting connects that history with possible Shinnecock and Montaukett participation. The memorial connects the American Revolution to Native soldiers whose families also fought to hold on to their homelands. David Bunn Martine’s painting carries this remembrance into Long Island’s contemporary Native art, inviting attention to people whose individual stories are still being recovered. On the eastern edge of Van Cortlandt Park, a bronze plaque set into a stone memorial remembers Native soldiers who died in the Revolutionary War. The Chief Nimham Memorial stands at Indian Field, near Van Cortlandt Park East and East 238th Street. [6] The Stockbridge company included Mohican, Wappinger, and Munsee men. Fighting alongside the Americans also...