Portrays the society of the Indians of New England and examines the interaction between the cultures of the European settlers and the Indians
This narrative takes an ethnographic approach to American Indian history from the arrival of humans on the American continent to the present day. The text provides balanced coverage of political,...
62 Clearly by the eve of King Philip's War in the mid-1670s, individual Indians, members of subject tribes, residents of praying towns, and even native people not fully subjugated by the English had come under the powerful influence of ...
Known for its focus on the environment & the land, the text is also praised for its coverage of cultural history, public health, & medicine. This edition brings the work fully up-to-date.
During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, surprise, and mobility.
Enduring Vision: A History of the American People
Salisbury, Manitou and Providence, 57. Calvin Martin, Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978); Shepard Krech III, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (New ...
Salisbury, Manitou and Providence, pp. 180–181, 184, 192–193, 199–202 (quotations on pp. 192–193, 202); and RMB 1:112. For the raids, see WJ 1:66–68. For Cambridge and the other towns, see RMB 1:196, 201, 252, 292; Hurd, ed., ...
Charles L. Lincoln to George L. Perkins , 17 August 1841 and 15 September 1841 , and George L. Perkins to Noah Webster ... The Rimes of Uncas ( New York , 1968 ) , especially 11-12 ; Virginia Frances Voight , Uncas , Sachem of the Wolf ...
For accounts of the tribe during the settlement era, see Salisbury, Manitou and Providence, 228–35; Robinson, “A Narragansett History from 1000 B.P. to the Present,” 79–89; Robinson, “Lost Opportunities,” 13–28; Rubertone, ...
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