Employing the enduring Native tradition of oral history as the narrative voice, the film features Wampishe, a Pequot elder who was a young boy at the time of the massacre and survived the carnage. Wampishe recounts the tragic events of the war to his grandson and urges him to keep the story alive by telling it to his own children and grandchildren. The first figure is Cassacinamon, a Pequot sachem from 1645 to 1692, who holds a document confirming that the Pequots could live again at Mashantucket following the Pequot War. Another highlight of this area is the re-creation of a farmstead house, circa 1780, with naturalistic figures reflecting a typical family of the time. Visitors can walk through the house and outside onto a two-acre, outdoor farmstead that includes orchards and gardens.
Signage is available throughout, identifying plants, tools and farming techniques.
The outdoor farmstead will be closed to the public during the winter months. A computer interactive, oral histories, and short films, including O ur Remembered Sisters, describing the lives of three Mashantucket women in the first half of the 19 th century, enhances the experience. A mobile home is on display in the exhibit, symbolizing life on the reservation in the 1970s. Visitors are able to look into the home and listen to oral histories of tribal members who lived on the reservation during that decade. A special theater shows a film, Bringing the People Home, explaining how the Tribe rebuilt their nation and achieved Federal recognition in 1983.