Download or read book Uncas written by Michael Leroy Oberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy Oberg integrates the life story of an important Native American sachem into the broader story of European settlement in America. The arrival of the English in Connecticut in the 1630s upset the established balance among the region's native groups and brought rapid economic and social change. Oberg argues that Uncas's methodical and sustained strategies for adapting to these changes made him the most influential Native American leader in colonial New England. Emerging from the damage wrought by epidemic disease and English violence, Uncas transformed the Mohegans from a small community along the banks of the Thames River in Connecticut into a regional power in southern New England. Uncas learned quickly how to negotiate between cultures in the conflicts that developed as natives and newcomers, Indians and English, maneuvered for access to and control of frontier resources. With English assistance, Uncas survived numerous assaults and plots hatched by his native rivals. Unique among Indian leaders in early America, Uncas maintained his power over large numbers of tributary and other native communities in the region, lived a long life, and died a peaceful death (without converting to Christianity) in his people's traditional homeland. Oberg finds that although the colonists considered Uncas "a friend to the English," he was first and foremost an assertive guardian of Mohegan interests.
Download or read book The Collected Writings of Samson Occom Mohegan written by Samson Occom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles Eastman (Santee Sioux; 1858-1939), Occom's writings offer unparalleled views into a Native American intellectual and cultural universe in the era of colonialization and the early United States. His letters, sermons, journals, prose, petitions, and hymns--many of them never before published--document the emergence of pantribal political consciousness among the Native peoples of New England as well as Native efforts to adapt Christianity as a tool of decolonialization. Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800.
Download or read book 1621 written by Catherine O'Neill Grace and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the real Thanksgiving through photographs from a recreation of the true Thanksgiving by Plimoth Plantation
Download or read book The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island written by John A. Strong and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Montaukett were among the first tribes to establish relations with the English in the seventeenth century, until now very little has been written about the evolution of their interaction with the settlers. John A. Strong, a noted authority on the Indians of New York State's Long Island, has written a concise history that focuses on the issue of land tenure in the relations between the English and the Montaukett. This study covers the period from the earliest contacts to the New York Appellate Court decision in 1917—which declared the tribe to be extinct—to their current battle for the federal recognition necessary to reclaim portions of their land. Strong also looks at related issues such as cultural assimilation, political and social tensions, and patterns of economic dependency among the Montaukett.
Download or read book Medicine Trail written by Melissa Jayne Fawcett and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the fictional account of James Fenimore Cooper, the Mohegan/Mohican nation did not vanish with the death of Chief Uncas more than three hundred years ago. In the remarkable life story of one of its most beloved matriarchs—100-year-old medicine woman Gladys Tantaquidgeon—Medicine Trail tells of the Mohegans' survival into this century. Blending autobiography and history, with traditional knowledge and ways of life, Medicine Trail presents a collage of events in Tantaquidgeon's life. We see her childhood spent learning Mohegan ceremonies and healing methods at the hands of her tribal grandmothers, and her Ivy League education and career in the white male-dominated field of anthropology. We also witness her travels to other Indian communities, acting as both an ambassador of her own tribe and an employee of the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Finally we see Tantaquidgeon's return to her beloved Mohegan Hill, where she cofounded America's oldest Indian-run museum, carrying on her life's commitment to good medicine and the cultural continuance and renewal of all Indian nations. Written in the Mohegan oral tradition, this book offers a unique insider's understanding of Mohegan and other Native American cultures while discussing the major policies and trends that have affected people throughout Indian Country in the twentieth century. A significant departure from traditional anthropological "as told to" American Indian autobiography, Medicine Trail represents a major contribution to anthropology, history, theology, women's studies, and Native American studies.
Download or read book Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians written by Gladys Tantaquidgeon and published by DIANE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early childhood, author Gladys Tantaquidgeon, a Mohican Indian, has been keenly interested in the history & traditions of her people. She studied anthropology in college, & has done research among the surviving eastern Algonkian Indians of New England & Canada. In 1934 she joined the U.S. Indian Service & became a community worker on a Sioux reservation, & later served as a specialist in Indian arts & crafts for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Upon retirement, she & her brother operated a museum of Indian arts & crafts. The first section of this book, Delaware Medicine Practice & Folk Beliefs was first published in 1942. The second part, Notes on Mohegan Practice & Folk Beliefs was originally published in 1926. Illustrations.
Download or read book Makiawisug written by Melissa Jayne Fawcett and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic Mohegan Indian story of the Little People who live underground in the woods.
Download or read book We Come for Good written by Paul N. Backhouse and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As indigenous populations are invited to participate in cultural heritage identification, research, interpretation, management, and preservation, they are faced with a variety of challenges, questions that are difficult to answer, and demands that must be carefully navigated. We Come for Good describes the development and operations of the Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) of the Seminole Tribe of Florida as an example of how tribes can successfully manage and retain authority over the heritage of their respective cultures. With Native voices front and center, this book demonstrates ways THPOs can work within federal and tribal governments to build capacity and uphold tribal values--core principles of a strong tribal historic preservation program. The authors also offer readers one of the first attempts to document Native perspectives on the archaeology of native populations.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians written by John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Native People of Southern New England 1500 1650 written by Kathleen J. Bragdon and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive study of American Indians of southern New England from 1500 to 1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon discusses common features and significant differences among the Pawtucket, Massachusett, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, Narragansett, Pokanoket, Niantic, Mohegan, and Pequot Indians. Her complex portrait, which employs both the perspective of European observers and important new evidence from archaeology and linguistics, shows that internally developed customs and values were primary determinants in the development of Native culture.
Download or read book The Rights of Indians and Tribes written by Stephen L. Pevar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government officials, students, practitioners of Indian law, and the general public. Numerous tribal leaders highly recommend this book. Incorporating a user-friendly question-and-answer format, The Rights of Indians and Tribes addresses the most significant legal issues facing Indians and Indian tribes today, including tribal sovereignty, the federal trust responsibility, the regulation of non-Indians on reservations, Indian treaties, the Indian Civil Rights Act, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and the Indian Child Welfare Act. This fully-updated new edition features an introduction by John Echohawk, Executive Director of the Native American Rights Fund.
Download or read book The Long Island Indians and Their New England Ancestors written by Donna Gentle Spirit Barron and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book for both the wannabe angler and the seriously afflicted. If it's saltwater gamefishing you are after, you will find the secrets that help 10% of participants catch 90% of the fish. From Barracuda to Bluefin Tuna, Yellowtail to Dorado, Wahoo to Marlin, and many other species, you will learn which techniques are common to areas such as Mexico, Australia, Central America, and especially The Pacific Coast of California and Baja California. You will also examine techniques that are uniquely successful in certain local areas of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The author traces fisheries from the 1950's to the present, showing how declining abundance can be overcome by trying new areas, refining techniques, and becoming a student of the hunt for these spectacular fighters. Curl up in front of the fireplace to warm you through the winter months, then take the book aboard to try the tested methods outlined in each chapter. Experts will pick up tips or reaffirm their own systems. Conservation issues are addressed, and some unique, simple ways to cook your catch. And a complete list of fishing terms so you can swap stories using the proper jargon.
Download or read book Indians at Work written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England written by William DeLoss Love and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Do Good to My Indian Brethren written by Joseph Johnson and published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson's diaries, written between 1771 and 1773, document daily life in the Indian Christian communities of Mohegan and Farmington, Connecticut, with a remarkable richness and intimacy. His letters - to his teacher, Eleazar Wheelock, and other white benefactors, as well as to his fellow Native Americans - reveal both an uncommon talent for diplomacy and a powerful vision of Indian solidarity.
Download or read book American and Latin American Indians written by Keith Evans and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief informative guide to American, and Latin- American, Indians will save one much time and trouble when researching for reports or essays. I have covered as much as possible, with the intent of keeping it as brief as I possibly could. This brief guide covers much more than the American and Latin-American Indian tribes. you will learn; how they lived, the coming of the white man, Indian wars, language groups, brief biographies of Indian Chiefs and Army Commanders, Military Forts, the Pilgrims and Rangers, the Revolutionary War, the Westward Movement, and much more. After completing this book I have found it to be very informative, and much less time consuming, to say the least. Example: If you want to know how the Indians lived, simply turn to that page and you will begin learn about their food, transportation, housing, clothing, communication, family life, religion and ceremony, and government. There are also additional articles, such as: the Bison, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Territory, History of the Stagecoach, Totem Pole, and Writings. I can only hope that you find this book as useful as I and several of my friends and family members have.
Download or read book Indian Nations of North America written by Anton Treuer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Categorized into eight geographical regions, this encyclopedic reference examines the history, beliefs, traditions, languages, and lifestyles of indigenous peoples of North America.
