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Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (born 1919)

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Zara Cisco Brough

Native American chief and politician

Zara Cisco Brough, also called Princess White Flower, served as the Chief of the Nipmuc Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Massachusetts, from 1962 until 1987. She is best known for her work to preserve Nipmuc heritage.
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Nipmuc

Indigenous people in Massachusetts and adjoining states

The Nipmuc or Nipmuck people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who historically spoke an Eastern Algonquian language, probably the Loup language. Their historic territory Nippenet, meaning 'the freshwater pond place', is in central Massachusetts and nearby…
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January 7

Day of the year

January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 358 days remain until the end of the year.
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