This is a good example of Ann Harding Murdock's interviews and features in media:
MOHAWK AT FAIR? RIVAL ASKS, HOW?; Matinnecock Tribe Asserts Claim to Free Admission
March 30, 1964
If any group is going to get into the World's Fair by using the password “bulrushes,” it's going to be the Matinnecock and not the Mohawk Indians.
That was the word yesterday from Princess Sun Tamo, who is Mrs. Ann Harding Murdock, chairman of the Matinnecock Indian long house, a two?story turquoise and yellow house on Union Street in Flushing, Queens.
Ten Indians conveyed title to the Flushing Meadow area to a group of English settlers on April 14, 1684, with one reservation; “Ye Indians hath reserved Liberty to cut bullrushes for them and their heyres for ever in any place within ye Tract.”
Mary A. Benjamin, an autograph dealer at 790 Madison Avenue, recently identified the Indians who conveyed the title to “fflushing within Queenes County” as Mohawks.
“Not so,” says Princess Sun Tamo, proclaiming that no Mohawk was ever within 200 miles of Flushing Meadows.
Indianophiles agree with the princess. A spokesman for the Heye Foundation's Museum of the American Indian said that the Matinnecock were indeed a small tribe of Algonquins who dwelt in the Flushing area.
But, he said, since the Matinnecocks were constantly being plundered by other Indians, they might possibly have given another tribe the Flushing Meadow rights. However, the Mohawks, who were in north-western New York, would hardly have been involved, he said.
Princess Sun Tamo was adamant. “If any Indians get into the fair for free, it will have to be us,” she said.
The princess, who was wearing a gaily colored flower print dress, donned the symbol of her Indian authority yesterday to discuss the problem. She calls it her “woodland bonnet.” It is a white rabbit skin skull cap, to which are affixed four hang ing eagle feathers, a half dozen strips of ermine, two shells and a band of beads.
She said there were now 200 Matinnecocks in the long house, and “all of us have the right to live in Flushing and plant corn and hunt here.”
She was critical of the fact that there would be no American Indian pavilion at the World's Fair.
“We were told that if we wanted such an exhibit, we would have to pay for it,” she said.
“Now wouldn’t we be foolish to pay for an exhibit on land which we still own?”
Apparently she had forgotten about the 10 Indians, who conveyed title to the area to the white man 280 years ago.
Princess Sun Tamo conceded that she would not feel too bad about the “bulrushes” password if the whole thing had not become involved with the Mohawk — “our bitterest enemies.”
“No Mohawk better put claim to our Matinnecock land,” she warned.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/30/archives/mohawk-at-fair-rival-asks-how-matinnecock-tribe-asserts-claim-to.html
