After almost six years at the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, the Yale Indian Papers Project has a new home at the Yale Divinity School in New Haven. The location will provide the Yale community with greater access to…
Author: Paul Grant-Costa
From the Editors
List of Expenses for the Support and Education of the Six Mohawk Scholars
The idea to train Indians as missionaries and educators to Native communities in and around New England was not necessarily a new concept in the mid-eighteenth century, but in the hands of Eleazar Wheelock, a graduate of Yale College (1733)…
America to her Mistaken Mother, Part II
For those of our readers who attempted to unpack the rebus, America to her Mistaken Mother, last week, here’s the quick solution to the puzzle: America to her mistaken mother. You silly old woman that you have sent a dove to…
“We did not land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us.”
Frank James, whose Wampanoag name is Wamsutta, organized the United American Indians of New England in 1970 after a speech he had written for the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the Pilgrim arrival was considered inappropriate and too inflamatory by…
America to her Mistaken Mother, an 18th Century Rebus
The convention of using the figure of a Native American woman as an allegorical representation for the continent of America or the British American colonies was quite commonplace by the Eighteenth Century. Often meant to evoke the exotic, these depictions embodied…
She is willing to go with her husband
On December 16, 1675, Thomas Hamilton of the Royal Navy in Tangier, Northern Africa, wrote to the Admiralty Board with some observations and recommendations. Onboard Hamilton’s ship, the Margaret Galley, were thirty New England Indians, condemned to slavery by Massachusetts’ magistrates…