Native Americans Of New England

Author : William S. Simmons
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512603170

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Spirit of the New England Tribes by William S. Simmons Pdf

Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings, newspapers, magazines, diaries, local histories, anthropology and folklore publications, a variety of unpublished manuscript sources, and field research with living Indians.

Author : Christoph Strobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440866111

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Native Americans of New England by Christoph Strobel Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England. This work is a comprehensive and region-wide synthesis of the history of the indigenous peoples of the northeastern corner of what is now the United States-New England-which includes the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Native Americans of New England takes view of the history of indigenous peoples of the region, reconstructing this past from the earliest available archeological evidence to the present. It examines how historic processes shaped and reshaped the lives of Native peoples and uses case studies, historic sketches, and biographies to tell these stories. While this volume is aware of the impact that colonization, ethnic cleansing, dispossession, and racism had on the lives of indigenous peoples in New England, it also focuses on Native American resistance, adaptation, and survival under often harsh and unfavorable circumstances. Native Americans of New England is structured into six chapters that examine the continuous presence of indigenous peoples in the region. The book emphasizes Native Americans' efforts to preserve the integrity and viability of their dynamic and self-directed societies and cultures in New England.

Author : Howard S. Russell
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611686364

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Indian New England Before the Mayflower by Howard S. Russell Pdf

In offering here a highly readable yet comprehensive description of New England's Indians as they lived when European settlers first met them, the author provides a well-rounded picture of the natives as neither savages nor heroes, but fellow human beings existing at a particular time and in a particular environment. He dispels once and for all the common notion of native New England as peopled by a handful of savages wandering in a trackless wilderness. In sketching the picture the author has had help from such early explorers as Verrazano, Champlain, John Smith, and a score of literate sailors; Pilgrims and Puritans; settlers, travelers, military men, and missionaries. A surprising number of these took time and trouble to write about the new land and the characteristics and way of life of its native people. A second major background source has been the patient investigations of modern archaeologists and scientists, whose several enthusiastic organizations sponsor physical excavations and publications that continually add to our perception of prehistoric men and women, their habits, and their environment. This account of the earlier New Englanders, of their land and how they lived in it and treated it; their customs, food, life, means of livelihood, and philosophy of life will be of interest to all general audiences concerned with the history of Native Americans and of New England.

Author : Daniel R. Mandell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801899683

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Tribe, Race, History by Daniel R. Mandell Pdf

This award–winning study examines American Indian communities in Southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction. From 1780–1880, Native Americans lived in the socioeconomic margins. They moved between semiautonomous communities and towns and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, Daniel R. Mandell centers his study on ethnic boundaries, particularly how those boundaries were constructed, perceived, and crossed. Mandell analyzes connections and distinctions between Indians and their non-Indian neighbors with regard to labor, landholding, government, and religion; examines how emerging romantic depictions of Indians (living and dead) helped shape a unique New England identity; and looks closely at the causes and results of tribal termination in the region after the Civil War. Shedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England. Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians

Author : Kathleen J. Bragdon
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185286

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Native People of Southern New England, 1650-1775 by Kathleen J. Bragdon Pdf

Despite the popular assumption that Native American cultures in New England declined after Europeans arrived, evidence suggests that Indian communities continued to thrive alongside English colonists. In this sequel to her Native People of Southern New England, 1500–1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon continues the Indian story through the end of the colonial era and documents the impact of colonization. As she traces changes in Native social, cultural, and economic life, Bragdon explores what it meant to be Indian in colonial southern New England. Contrary to common belief, Bragdon argues, Indianness meant continuing Native lives and lifestyles, however distinct from those of the newcomers. She recreates Indian cosmology, moral values, community organization, and material culture to demonstrate that networks based on kinship, marriage, traditional residence patterns, and work all fostered a culture resistant to assimilation. Bragdon draws on the writings and reported speech of Indians to counter what colonists claimed to be signs of assimilation. She shows that when Indians adopted English cultural forms—such as Christianity and writing—they did so on their own terms, using these alternative tools for expressing their own ideas about power and the spirit world. Despite warfare, disease epidemics, and colonists’ attempts at cultural suppression, distinctive Indian cultures persisted. Bragdon’s scholarship gives us new insight into both the history of the tribes of southern New England and the nature of cultural contact.

Author : Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 155553404X

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New England Encounters by Alden T. Vaughan Pdf

The essays, which were originally published in The New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, consider a wide range of areas in Native American-white relations: from Abenaki territory in northern Maine to Pequot lands in southern Connecticut; from profitable commerce to devastating warfare; from religious persuasion to labor exploitation; from cultural mixing to non-violent resistance; from literary representation to political argumentation. A comprehensive and insightful introduction by the editor places the richly diverse topics and perspectives within the broader context of New England ethnohistory. Most of the authors have added postscripts to their original essays commenting on recent scholarship and interpretations.

Author : Gordon M. Day
Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1558491511

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In Search of New England's Native Past by Gordon M. Day Pdf

This volume highlights the work of the late Gordon M. Day, renowned for his groundbreaking research on the history and culture of the Western Abenakis and their Indian neighbors. Drawing on several disciplines, Day synthesized data from fragmentary historical records, oral traditions, and place names to reconstruct a lost world. 8 illustrations.

Author : Moondancer,Strong Woman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89082424235

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A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England by Moondancer,Strong Woman Pdf

Very few books on the history and culture of the southern New England Native peoples have been written by the Natives themselves. Standard academic books read like a clinical autopsy of a dead culture from many years ago. Contrary to this, A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England provides an understanding of the ways, customs, and language of the southern New England American Indians from the Native's perspective. For the first time, a book written about the Native American peoples of southern New England is written by the Natives themselves. Incorporating voices of modern Elders and other Natives to the historic records of the 1500s and 1600s, everything about the beauty, power, and richness of their culture has been included. Sections of the book cover appearance, language, family and relations, religion, the body and senses, marriage, sickness, war, games, hunting, and much more. The proud and fiercely independent Native American peoples of southern New England once walked tall and proud on this land. With this book, they are now beginning to walk tall again.

Author : Christoph Strobel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9798400689864

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Native Americans of New England by Christoph Strobel Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England. This work is a comprehensive and region-wide synthesis of the history of the indigenous peoples of the northeastern corner of what is now the United States-New England-which includes the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Native Americans of New England takes view of the history of indigenous peoples of the region, reconstructing this past from the earliest available archeological evidence to the present. It examines how historic processes shaped and reshaped the lives of Native peoples and uses case studies, historic sketches, and biographies to tell these stories. While this volume is aware of the impact that colonization, ethnic cleansing, dispossession, and racism had on the lives of indigenous peoples in New England, it also focuses on Native American resistance, adaptation, and survival under often harsh and unfavorable circumstances. Native Americans of New England is structured into six chapters that examine the continuous presence of indigenous peoples in the region. The book emphasizes Native Americans' efforts to preserve the integrity and viability of their dynamic and self-directed societies and cultures in New England.

Author : Kristina Bross,Hilary E. Wyss
Publisher : Native Americans of the Northe
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1558496483

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Early Native Literacies in New England by Kristina Bross,Hilary E. Wyss Pdf

Examines some of the work of early American writers that centered around the Algonquian Indians.

Author : C. Keith Wilbur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0762774681

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New England Indians by C. Keith Wilbur Pdf

An informed and fascinating account of the 18 major tribes that lived in pre-Colonial New England

Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611680614

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After King Philip's War by Colin G. Calloway Pdf

New perspectives on three centuries of Indian presence in New England

Author : Thaddeus Piotrowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476614083

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The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England by Thaddeus Piotrowski Pdf

Years before Jamestown was settled, European adventurers and explorers landed on the shores of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in search of fame, fortune, and souls to convert to Christianity. Unbeknownst to them all, the “New World” they had found was actually a very old one, as the history of the native people spanned 10,000 years or more. This work is a compilation of old and new essays written by present-day archeologists, by explorers and missionaries who were in direct contact with the Indians, and by scholars over the last three centuries. The essays are in three sections: Prehistory, which concentrates on the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, and Woodland phases of the native heritage, the Contact Era, which deals with the explorers and their experiences in the New World, and Collections, Sites, Trails, and Names, which focuses on various dedications to the native population and significant names (such as the Massabesic Trail and the Cohas Brook site).

Author : Delores Bird Carpenter
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870139017

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Early Encounters by Delores Bird Carpenter Pdf

Early Encounters contains a selection of nineteen essays from the papers of prominent New England historian, antiquarian, and genealogist Warren Sears Nickerson (1880-1966). This extensive study of his own family ties to the Mayflower, and his exhaustive investigation of the first contacts between Europeans and Native Americans, in what is today New England, made him an unquestioned authority in both fields. The research upon which the text of Early Encounters is based occurred between the 1920s and the 1950s. Each of Nickerson’s works included in this carefully edited volume is placed in its context by Delores Bird Carpenter; she provides the reader with a wealth of useful background information about each essay’s origin, as well as Nickerson’s reasons for undertaking the research. Material is arranged thematically: the arrival of the Mayflower; conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans; and other topics related to the history and legends of early European settlement on Cape Cod. Early Encounters is a thoughtfully researched, readable book that presents a rich and varied account of life in colonial New England.

Author : Peter Benes
Publisher : Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002450308

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Algonkians of New England by Peter Benes Pdf