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Author: Kim Isaac Eisler
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ultimate American tale is the rags-to-riches story of Connecticut's Pequot Indians, who faced extinction just 15 years ago and subsequently rose to build the lucrative Foxwoods Resort and Casino. Photos.
Author: Laurence M. Hauptman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780806125152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore 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 Mashantucket Pequot Historical Conference, at which distinguished scholars presented the articles assembled here.
Author: Shirlee Petkin Newman
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780531203279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the history and culture of the Pequot Indians from the time before the arrival of Europeans to the present.
Author: David R. Wagner
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1582187746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican histories have long held that in May 1637---"Connecticut's Birthday"---a small force of English colonists guided by Mohegan Native allies set out to break the back of Pequot dominion in New England. According to Alfred E. Cave's The Pequot War and other accounts, the English and Mohegans supposedly marched "undetected" across multiple Indian territories, and at the Pequot village of Missituc on the Mystic River, trapped and killed between 300 and 700 men, women and children---thus launching the northern English colonies' first "total war" against Native Americans. What new understandings emerge when, for the first time, readers can examine these records and traditions against the actual landscape? What were the realities of New England tribal life, and of Native American war, in the 1600s? If the colonists of Massachusetts Bay and Hartford were in their own words "altogether ignorant" of how to locate, identify, fight, and control Native peoples, how did thoroughly-intermarried Pequots, Mohegans, Narragansetts and others exploit these crucial English blind-spots with astonishing, subtle and yet plainly visible counter-strategies? Why were guns, armor and European assault-tactics the wrong means of war in New England? What were the consequences near and far of the colonies' refusals to adjust? Tracking every step of The Pequot War from its origins to its aftermath and influences, Mystic Fiasco is its most comprehensive and detailed study. Its basis in the landscape exposes the fundamental but unexamined paradigms that hard-wired the American colonial psyche from those days to these. With user-friendly maps and illustrations by renowned historical artist David R. Wagner and the documentary expertise of historian Jack Dempsey, Mystic Fiasco is filled with resources that empower you to go and discover this "Mystic Massacre" and Pequot War for yourself.
Author: Alfred A. Cave
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidences to trace the evolution of the conflict, he sheds new light on the motivations of the Pequots and their Indian allies, the fur trade, and the cultural values and attitudes in New England. He also provides a reappraisal of the interaction of ideology and self- interest as motivating factors in the Puritan attack on the Pequots.
Author: Alfred A. Cave
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 89
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allison Lassieur
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780736809481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an overview of the Pequot, including their history, the Pequot War, homes, food, clothing, religion, and government.
Author: Brett Duval Fromson
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2004-08
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780802141712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFromson uncovers a labyrinthine tale of legal maneuverings, back room political dealings, and ethnic reinvention that led to the Pequot Indian tribe bringing casino gambling to Connecticut.
Author: William Apess
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together all of the known writings of William Apess, a Native American of mixed Pequot and white parentage who fought for the United States in the War of 1812, became a Methodist minister in 1829, and championed the rights of the Mashpee tribe on Cape Cod in the 1830s. Apess's A Son of the Forest, originally published in 1829, was the first extended autobiography by an American Indian. Readable and engaging, it is not only a rare statement by a Native American, but also an unusually full document in the history of New England native peoples. Another piece in the collection, The Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequo(d) Tribe (1833), concludes with an eloquent and unprecedented attack on Euro-American racism entitled "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man". Also included are Apess's account of the "Mashpee Revolt" of 1833-34, when the Native Americans of Mashpee petitioned the government of Massachusetts for the right to elect their own representatives, and his Eulogy on King Philip, an address delivered in Boston in 1836 to mark the 160th anniversary of King Philip's War. In his extensive introduction to the volume, Barry O'Connell reconstructs the story of Apess's life, situates him in the context of early nineteenth-century Pequot society, and interprets his writings both as a literary act and as an expression of emerging Native American politics.
Author: Meredith Mason Brown
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-03-22
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0253008336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrown uses 20 objects to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head probably made before the Pequot War in 1637, to the western novel Dwight Eisenhower was reading while waiting for the Normandy Invasion to begin.
