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…
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…
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…
On November 13, 1728, two servants ran away from their employer, Lieutenant Mehuman Hinsdell of Deerfield, Massachusetts. About two weeks later Hinsdell ran the following advertisement in the New England Weekly Journal: Ran-away on the 13th. of Novemb. Instant, From…
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…
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…
Central to any understanding of Seventeenth Century Native New England is the figure of Ninigret (c. 1600-1676), the sachem of the Eastern Niantics and Narragansetts. In fact, Ninigret was at the center of almost every major development involving southern New England…