Hail to the Sunrise in Charlemont on Route 2. The monument is a Mohawk warrior standing over the Max Eninger Memorial Pool completed in 1932 by the Improved Order of Red Men. The bronze statue depicts a Native American man in traditional wardrobe looking eastward with his arms extended. He faces the direction of the rising sun and is said to be greeting the Great Spirit. The pool is lined with 100 inscribed stones from various tribes and councils of the Red Men (the oldest fraternal organization to be granted a charter by Congress) and Degree of Pocahontas, the women’s auxiliary, from throughout the United States. Stones of past and present members of the organization line the walkway around the pool.The Red Men are a fraternal organization who, despite their name, consisted of only white members at the time. The monument honors the peoples of the five Mohawk Nations that inhabited western Mass and New York State. The Mohawks that traveled this trail were said to be friendly to white settlers according to the plaque.

The monument serves as a reminder of the area’s Native American heritage.

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