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This monument, a boulder of fieldstone conglomerate with an attached bronze plaque, is located in Indian Field, Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, New York, and honors the Stockbridge Indians who fought and died at the Battle of Kingsbridge, also known as Cortlandt’s Ridge. It reads: “August 31, 1778 upon this field Chief Nimham and seventeen Stockbridge Indians as allies of the Patriots gave their lives for liberty.” The monument was erected by the Bronx Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and dedicated on Flag Day on June 14, 1906. The monument was restored by the New York City Parks Monument Conservation Program in the summer of 2016. Photos by Theresa Barbaro