Who Writes These Things?*

Whetstone Brook at the Kwenitekw confluence. Image from linked article, no citation.

Drawing upon the following text from a content scraping aggregation site that turned up in a random search:

"It is believed that the indigenous Abenaki people initially named the town’s present site “Wantastiquet” due to its location at the confluence of West and Connecticut Rivers. The Abenaki people visited this area annually between their summer settlement - Missisquoi and their winter settlement - Squakheag. Before the European arrival in the 17th and 18th centuries, the area was inhabited by the Sokoki people, a specific band of the Abenaki Indians."
*The credited author is Diptarka Ghosh, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Here’s a draft of a rewrite from a broader persepctive:

"Located at the confluence of the West and Connecticut Rivers, this place is known as Wantastegok by its Indigenous inhabitants. It is a part of the homelands of the Sokoki Abenaki, who with their ancestors have lived here for 11,000 years. Their referent for the region, Sokwakik, is recalled by Squakheag, a name for nearby Northfield, MA, used by colonizing 17th century European settlers."