Walking Spirit in a Native Way

Article originally posted August 2014     grand monadnock   chi monidou'nok   moniadenak     Does it really mean mountain that stands alone?   A good friend of mine lives near Grand Monadnock in New Hampshire. She is of Abenaki Ancestry and has been doing research to identify the aboriginal activity around the mountain prior to colonial settlement. The information about native use of the mountain is almost nonexistent and little factual information is available. Beth has read just about anything she could find on the subject. Recently she contacted Russ Moore. Russ is a writer and has done many articles about the Monadnock Region. He responded, properly I might add, and said this:   "The best evidence of Native Americans living on or near Mt. Monadnock is that it is a Western Abenaki word and they must have been in the area to give it a name later adopted by the European decent persons who explored the area in the late 1600s and early 1...