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Mary Emma Cuffee Bunn

Mary Emma Cuffee Bunn (1847–1937) was a Shinnecock woman whose life connected language-bearing family knowledge, maritime labor, survival after the Circassian disaster, education, and intergenerational community continuity. Mary Emma Cuffee Bunn’s life centers the work Shinnecock women carried through maritime loss: sustaining families, educating children, protecting kinship, and refusing the false claim that catastrophe made the community disappear. Mary Emma Cuffee Bunn (1847–1937) was a Shinnecock woman whose life connected language-bearing family knowledge, maritime labor, survival after the Circassian disaster, education,...