While the lives of Native women in colonial New England were generally not well documented, occasionally enough of a story can be recovered from the shadows of the archives to provide some insight into the roles of Native women in…
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Perspectives: Interpreting Nipmuc, A Talk by Cheryll Holley
On Thursday, February 12th, Chief Cheryll Holley of Nipmuc Nation will be speaking at UMASS/Amherst in a series titled “Interpreting Nipmuc.” Open to the general public, the talk will go from 2:30 pm-5:00 pm in room 112 of Dickinson Hall,…
New Feature: Perspectives
Editor’s Note: One of the purposes of Op-Ed is to stimulate thoughts and conversations about Native New England through the varying materials within the New England Indian Papers Series electronic archives. Since the blog’s inception, project editors have written the…
Meet This Semester’s Editorial Interns
My name is Kyle Armstrong, and I am a student at Central Connecticut State University studying History Secondary Education. I am excited to be working as an intern for the Yale Indian Papers Project and to finally discover just what…
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…
Rethinking Thanksgiving
November 27, 2014 marks the 45th anniversary of the first organized National Day of Mourning protests in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was there in 1970 that Wamsutta Frank James shared his personal thoughts on the American holiday and Native peoples, beginning…