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Great Barrington Long before Berkshire County was established in 1761, Native Americans made their home here. The Mohican Nation, an Algonquin Tribe, was the dominant Native American group along the Hudson River until disease and warfare (introduced by European settlers) decimated their numbers. The surviving members dispersed throughout the northeast, and one small group ultimately settled in the Berkshires, calling themselves the Housatonic Indians. In 1724, a pair of chiefs Konkapot and Umpachene sold the English enough land to form the towns of Great Barrington and Sheffield (a transaction that marks the start of white settlement in Berkshire County). More than a century later, Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833-89) was born. Painter, a clergyman turned reformer, was one of the foremost advocates and activists in the late-19th-century movement to reform United States Indian policy. Very few individuals possessed the influence Painter wielded in the movement, and Painte

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