A recent New Yorker article by E.Tammy Kim highlights the collaboration between the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the Passamaquoddy in their efforts to digitally reclaim historical sound recordings. In addition, there is an interesting discussion…
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Yale Indian Papers Project Collaborates with Harvard on Mellon Funded Initiative
In collaboration with Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Massachusetts Archives, the editors of the Yale Indian Papers Project are pleased to announce an award from the Mellon Foundation’s Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR). Under the…
The Eastern Pequot Journals of the Reverend Joseph Fish
Yale Indian Papers Project editors, in collaboration with the Connecticut Historical Society and with the assistance of the University of Massachusetts Boston, Archives Track Program, have completed the imaging and transcription of the Eastern Pequot Journals of Congregationalist minister Joseph…
Collaborative Partnership with the New London County Historical Society
Yale Indian Papers Project editors would like to thank Edward Baker and Tricia Royston, both of the New London County Historical Society at the Shaw Mansion in downtown New London, CT, for allowing us to image a number of documents…
“My mother’s name was Dimiss Occuish…”
In the summer of 1844, Lurea Dick, a Brothertown Indian from what was then Wisconsin Territory, corresponded with the overseer of the Niantic Tribe in East Lyme, Connecticut, seeking a distribution from the Niantic tribal funds. This request was not…
A House in Dispute
War, employment at sea, and westward emigration had a significant impact on the demographics of many late eighteenth to early nineteenth century reservation communities in New England. With the population of adult males much reduced, Indian women were often left…
Yale Indian Papers Project Awarded Second NEH Grant
The Yale Indian Papers Project has received a Scholarly Editions grant of $225,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support “The New England Indian Papers Series: The State of Connecticut Collection, 1783-1869.” Slated to begin in the…