Pequots in Southern New England The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation

Name: Pequots in Southern New England The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation
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ISBN: 9780806125152

ISBN-10: 0806125152

ISBN-13: 9780806125152

Edition: 1990

Authors: Laurence M. Hauptman, William T. Hagan, James D. Wherry

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Before their massacre by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637, the Pequots were preeminent in southern New England. Their location on the eastern Connecticut shore made them important producers of the wampum required to trade for furs from the Iroquois. They were also the only Connecticut Indians to oppose the land-hungry English. For those reasons, they became the first victims of white genocide in colonial America. Despite the Pequot War of 1637, and the greed and neglect of their white neighbors and "overseers," the Pequots endured in their ancestral homeland. In 1983 they achieved federal recognition. In 1987 they commemorated the 350th anniversary of the Pequot War by organizing the…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 3/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Introduction



New England Indians: Then and Now




Southern New England Prehistory and Early Pequot History



A Capsule Prehistory of Southern New England




The Pequots in the Early Seventeenth Century




Native Wampum as a Peripheral Resource in the Seventeenth-Century World-System




Pequot Survival



The Pequot War and Its Legacies




Indians and Colonists in Southern New England after the Pequot War: An Uneasy Balance




The Historical Archaeology of the Mashantucket Pequots, 1637-1900: A Preliminary Analysis




The Emergence of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, 1637-1975




The Mystic Voice: Pequot Folklore from the Seventeenth Century to the Present




Contemporary Federal and State Policies and Southern New England Indians



The New England Tribes and Their Quest for Justice




Connecticut's Indian Policy: From Testy Arrogance to Benign Bemusement



Afterword



Notes


Selected Bibliography


Contributors


Index