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- ↑ Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Oxford." 1983. Available at https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhchpp/TownSurveyRpts.htm. Accessed 7/6/2024.
- ↑ "Wullumahchein | Native Northeast Portal". nativenortheastportal.com. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ↑ Connole, The Indians of the Nipmuck Country in Southern New England, 111, 162, 164, 236
- ↑ "The Dying speeches of several Indians. Eliot, John, 1604-1690, tr" https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n00266.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
- ↑ Craig White, "The Praying Indians' Speeches as Texts of Massachusett Oral Culture," Early American Literature, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2003), p. 457 accessible on JSTOR
- ↑ "Summary under the Criteria and Evidence for Proposed Finding Webster/Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians: Prepared in response to a petition submitted to the Secretary of the Interior for Federal Acknowledgment that this group exists as an Indian tribe" (2001)p. 34 (citing Reese 1980, p. 28) https://www.bia.gov/sites/bia.gov/files/assets/as-ia/ofa/petition/069B_wbdnip_MA/069b_pf.pdf