Red Geese Tribe

Red Geese Tribe of North Haven, or Red Geese, a Native American tribe of mixed ancestry and they consider themselves the keepers of the land.

History
The first settlers of Franklin County met the Red Geese tribe in 1709 and then signed a treaty with the new allies in 1725.

During the French and Indian War, the Red Geese tribe sided with the British to fight against the French they then sided with the colonists during the American Revolution.

War with the Bloodfaces
The Bloodface tribe, an extinct tribe of Native Americans who were known for their cruelness and hostile nature when it came to claiming land and resources in the area.

They were wiped out by the Red Geese tribe in the early 16th century after years of fighting and massacres.

Their territory was the Wachoosee River and the Quabbin Valley area and parts of Connecticut.

However after the wars between the red geese they mysteriously disappeared never to be mentioned again until local legends were told of their existence.

The 19th Century
Native Americans continued to exist but fewer and fewer were able to live on the dwindling reserve lands and most were left to seek employment as domestics or servants in white households, out to sea as whalers or seafarers, or into the growing cities where they became laborers or barbers. The Red Geese tribe knew that their homeland was disappearing and they decided to find new land near North Haven and Eddington.

Legends and Traditions
The Red Geese shared oral traditions of spirits and great warriors who fought against the forces of evil in the forms of towering monstrosities.

Some scholars thought they were influenced by Eshermekites who supposedly settled the New World before the Vikings and other explorers.

This theory was supported by the fact that the Red Geese people spoke of a "mysterious people" who invaded their land before Europeans ever set foot in America.

In the early encounters with the strangers from Eshermek, they were described as kind and curious about the way the natives lived in the area.