In the late 17th and 18th century, the Wangunk village consisted of two parcels of land on the eastern side of the Connecticut River in what was then East Middletown (present-day Portland), Connecticut, as well as scattered plots in Wangunk…
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Mapping the Landscape of Native New England
One of the more perplexing geographic features of southern New England is Dighton Rock, a 40-ton, 11½ by 5 foot sandstone boulder once located on the east side of the Taunton River in the present-day town of Berkely, Massachusetts. Nicknamed…
Mapping the Landscape of Native New England
Stiles’ map of the Connecticut shoreline shows the mouth of the Pequot River, today called the Thames, and the towns of New London, on the left bank, and a portion of Groton, on the right bank. Originally a village in…
This Week in New England Native Documentary History
During one hot summer at the end of the seventeenth century, the weather in Westerly, Rhode Island became unbearable and caused a drought. This prompted a group of Narragansetts living nearby to turn to their cultural practices for a remedy…
Transnational Futures of Indigenous Studies
Editors of the Yale Indian Papers Project recently returned from a successful trip to England where they continued work at the National Archives (TNA) of the United Kingdom, presented a paper at a conference at the University of Oxford, renewed relationships with…
Congratulations to Faith Damon Davison
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…
This Week in New England Native Documentary History
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…