Pocumtuck  
The word Pocumtuck or Pocumpetook, meaning “swift, shallow, sandy river,” is the original name for the river now known as the Deerfield. The homelands of the Native people known as Pocumtuck include present-day Deerfield and Greenfield, Massachusetts. Culturally and linguistically, they are eastern Algonkian Indians. During the late 17th and early 18th century, many of them relocated to Schaghticoke and northern Wôbanaki communities.

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