| Description |
xi, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Native Americans of the Northeast |
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Native Americans of the Northeast.
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| Contents |
Lost opportunities : Miantonomi and the English in the seventeenth-century Narragansett country / Paul A. Robinson -- Uncas and the politics of contact / Eric S. Johnson -- Wyandanch : Sachem of the Montauks / John A. Strong -- Legacy of Robun Cassacinamon : Mashantucket Pequot leadership in the historic period / Kevin A. McBride -- Chief Rawandagon, alias Robin Hood : native "lord of misrule" in the Maine wilderness / Harald E.L. Prins -- Suscaneman and the Matinecock lands, 1653-1703 / Robert S. Grumet -- Putting a face on colonization : factionalism and gender politics in the life history of Awashunkes, the "Squaw Sachem" of Saconet / Ann Marie Plane -- "Standing by his father" : Thomas Waban of Natick, circa 1630-1722 / Daniel Mandell -- Daniel Spotso : a Sachem at Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, circa 1691-1741 / Elizabeth A. Little -- Theyanoguin / Dean R. Snow -- Shickellamy, "a person of consequence" / James H. Merrell -- Moses (Tunda) Tatamy, Delaware Indian diplomat / William A. Hunter -- Pisquetomen and Tamaqua : mediating peace in the Ohio country / Michael N. McConnell -- Molly Brant : her domestic and political roles in eighteenth-century New York / Lois M. Feister and Bonnie Pulis -- Walking the medicine line : Molly Ockett, a Pigwacket doctor / Bunny McBride and Harald E.L. Prins. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-388). |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Northeastern States -- Biography.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Northeastern States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Grumet, Robert Steven.
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| ISBN |
1558490000 cloth alkaline paper |
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1558490019 paper alkaline paper |
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