The editors of the Yale Indian Papers Project wish to congratulate our friend, colleague, and advisor, Faith Damon Davison, who was recently recognized by the Guardians of Culture and Lifeways International Awards Program with the “Honored One Award” for her…
Increase Mather, in his A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New England (Boston, 1676), wrote that the Native people “amongst whom we live, and whose Land the Lord God of our Fathers hath given to us…
Written from Saybrook at the end of June 1649, John Mason’s letter to the Commissioners of the United Colonies captures the unsettled nature of Indian affairs a decade after the end of the Pequot war. It is a world of…
In the fall of 1761, Ezra Stiles visited the Western Niantic Indian community in the Niantic-East Lyme, Connecticut area. Of the several Indian dwellings or wigwams standing there, he made sketches of two in particular, that of George Waukeets and Phoebe…
Ezra Stiles (1727-1795), the influential minister, scholar and president of Yale College, had a knack for writing things down. Nothing escaped his attention. His notebooks, journals, and correspondence often included the Native world around him. This world fascinated Stiles, who…
” . . . our English Fathers inform us that we are Considered by them as being Subjects to the Laws and Civil regulations of this Colony . . .” ” . . . the most of us have .…
On May 11, 1762, a petition of Chicken Worrups, a Native living in Kent, Connecticut, was written and presented to the Connecticut General Assembly two days later. Being elderly and in financial trouble, Worrups wished to sell part of his…