Sachem (Chief) Robert Hawkstorm Bergin
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Sachem (Chief) Robert Hawkstorm Bergin, UN/NGO Representative of Tribal Link is the hereditary Sachem of the Schaghticoke People and Grand Sachem of the Algonquin Confederacy.
He traces his lineage back to Wasanegin Massasoit the great Wampanoag Chief who was the father of King Phillip.
According to English sources, Massasoit prevented the failure of Plymouth Colony and the almost certain starvation that the Pilgrims faced during the earliest years of the colony's establishment.
Sachem Hawkstorm is an advocate for the rights of his peoples as well as other indigenous peoples from his region and beyond.
The Schaghticoke are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands, indigenous to what is now New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. The remnant tribes amalgamated in the area near the Connecticut-New York border after many losses.
There is a town by the name of "Schaghticoke" in New York State, so named because of the confluence of Hoosic and Hudson Rivers
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