This December brings to a close another successful semester of the Yale Indian Papers Project’s Native Internship Program. This year’s interns, Eric Maynard (Mohegan) and Danielle Hill (Mashpee), assisted the Project with document transcription, metadata development, record creation, and various…
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Thomas Commuck’s Indian Melodies Initiative
One of the items that will be appearing in the Indian Papers Collection is a copy of Thomas Commuck’s Indian Melodies that Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library owns. Published in 1845, the work is possibly the earliest musical publication by a…
Thanksgiving 2017
For most of us, Thanksgiving Day is tomorrow. A time when we remember family, friends, and the good things that have happened throughout the year. But for our friends and colleagues in the Mohegan Tribe, you could say that a…
Contested Legal Realities: Different Approaches to the Law in Indian Country
Lecture: Daniel Carpenter (Harvard), “Indigenous Representation by Petition”
Please join us in welcoming our colleague Dan Carpenter to Yale Wednesday, January 21, 2015 from 12:00-1:15 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect Street, Room A002, New Haven, CT “Indigenous Representation by Petition: Transformations in Iroquois…
Lecture: Daniel Carpenter (Harvard), “Indigenous Representation by Petition”
Please join us in welcoming our colleague Dan Carpenter to Yale Wednesday, January 21, 2015 from 12:00-1:15 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect Street, Room A002, New Haven, CT “Indigenous Representation by Petition: Transformations in Iroquois…
Captured Stories
1614 was a critical year for the Wampanoag. This was when Captain Thomas Hunt, an English explorer and trader, seized at least twenty of their countrymen from Patuxet to sell into Spanish slavery. One of those taken was Tisquantum or…