The 1st Thanksgiving!

Some believe that by the time the first settlers began to establish this village there were no Native Americans living in Montague. However, it is well documented that many of the earliest residents were known Indian traders and that the local ministers of the early Minisink Dutch Reformed Church had at one time preached both in Dutch and varied Indian dialects.

It is therefore presumed that a remnant portion of the Lenape were able to live peaceably alongside one another until warriors were instigated by the French and Indian War to try to force the colonists to leave their ancestral lands.
November is set aside and dedicated toward acknowledging NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.