Author: Paula PetersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780997628913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Mashpee Nine
Author: Paula PetersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780997628913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Son of Mashpee
Author: Earl MillsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780965436007
Category : Mashpee (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Part biography, part history, Son of Mashpee is a portrait of Chief Flying Eagle, Earl Mills, Sr., & his family with a strong emphasis on the heritage & legacy of the Wampanoags. The story of the Wampanoag tribe & story of the Mills family are parallel in time & go back to the 18th century. The book which is richly illustrated with old photographs, maps & drawings presents Mashepee on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as it once was & is today. It includes also the co-authors' discussion on a variety of topics as the annual pow wows & the dramatic changes in the Wampanoag community after the 1976 lawsuit when the Mashpee Wampanoags tried to regain ownership of their land. CAPE COD TIMES recommends SON OF MASHPEE as a "highly readable, often humorous & thoroughly entertaining book that should be read by anyone who doesn't have an understanding of the tribe's importance to Mashpee & Cape Cod." Published by Word Studio of North Falmouth, the 8 1/2" x 11" soft-cover book is printed in sepia on 128 pages of acid-free paper for archival preservation. To order: Word Studio, P.O. Box 1104, North Falmouth, MA 02556, USA.
This Land Is Their Land
Author: David J. SilvermanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632869268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.
People of the First Light
Author: Joan Tavares AvantPublisher:
ISBN: 9780981687391
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The author, a Mashpee Wampanoag, writes about the history and culture of her tribe.
The Wampanoags of Mashpee
Author: Russell M. PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Native Writings in Massachusett
Author: Ives GoddardPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691859
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
An edition of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Basic linguistic, historical, and ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Massachusetts. The Indians speaking this language are those referred to as the Massachusetts, the Wampanoags (or Pokanokets), and the Nausets, who inhabited the region encompassing the immediate Boston area and the area east of Narragansett Bay, incl. Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Isl., Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Illus. with original documents. In two volumes.
The Mashpee Indians
Author: Jack CampisiPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815625957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Mashpee Indians have occupied the same area of Cape Cod for more than 350 years and have adjusted and maintained their identity despite the cultural and political changes imposed upon them from the time of early European contact. Central to this ethnohistory is the question of the meaning of the word tribe, a question that was raised in the tribe's 1977 suit against the town and private landholders of Mashpee, Massachusetts. The Mashpees based their land-recovery claim on the provisions of the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1790, which protected the land of any Indian tribe or nation. But the jury found that the Mashpees were not a tribe, and the U.S. District Court judge therefore ruled that the Mashpees lacked standing to sue for land taken from them in contravention of federal law. Campisi reconstructs the trial and provides a detailed history of the Mashpees based on archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, and the documents collected during the tribe's suit. Since the trial, use of the term tribe has taken on increased importance in federal-Indian relations. There are nearly three hundred recognized tribes in the United States that are affected by changes in the definition of tribe, and over one hundred Indian tribes are now seeking federal recognition.
Eulogy on King Philip
Author: William ApesPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513288407
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Eulogy on King Philip (1836) is a speech by William Apes. An indentured servant, soldier, minister, and activist, Apes lived an uncommonly rich life for someone who died at just 41 years of age. Recognized for his pioneering status as a Native American public figure, William Apes was an astute recorder of a life in between. His Eulogy on King Philip celebrates the Wampanoag sachem also known as Metacomet, whose attempt to live in peace with the Plymouth colonists ended in brutal warfare. “[A]s the immortal Washington lives endeared and engraven on the hearts of every white in America, never to be forgotten in time- even such is the immortal Philip honored, as held in memory by the degraded but yet grateful descendants who appreciate his character; so will every patriot, especially in this enlightened age, respect the rude yet all accomplished son of the forest, that died a martyr to his cause, though unsuccessful, yet as glorious as the American Revolution.” Long considered an enemy of the American people, a rebel whose head was left on a pike for years in Plymouth, King Philip remained a hero to his descendants. In this fiery speech, Pequot activist William Apes portrays Philip as an impassioned defender of his people whose assassination and martyrdom serve as a reminder of the brutality of the early colonists. For Apes, a leader of the nonviolent Mashpee Revolt of 1833, Philip was a symbol of indigenous resistance whose legacy remained strategically misunderstood and misrepresented in American history. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Apes’ Eulogy on King Philip is a classic of Native American literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Wampanoag Genealogical History of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: Island history, people and places from sustained contact through the early Federal Period
Author: Jerome D. SegelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
This is a complete historical record of Martha's Vineyard's Wampanoag families, presented within the context of family genealogies. The main portion is a compendium of every Indian with Island connections whose name was found in the 17th and 18th centuries in various records, such as land records and deeds, wills, maritime, and census records.
Faith and Boundaries
Author: David J. SilvermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316583023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
It was indeed possible for Indians and Europeans to live peacefully in early America and for Indians to survive as distinct communities. Faith and Boundaries uses the story of Martha's Vineyard Wampanoags to examine how. On an island marked by centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land, community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists' exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division. The Wampanoags learned about race through this rising bar of civilization - every time they met demands to reform, colonists moved the bar higher until it rested on biological difference. Under the right circumstances, like those on Martha's Vineyard, religion could bridge wide difference between the peoples of early America, but its transcendent power was limited by the divisiveness of race.