For this Thanksgiving, we republish our post of November 27, 2013. 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…
Category: Places
The Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, CT Receives National Historical Landmark Recognition
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the designation of the Foreign Mission School (The Steward House) of Cornwall, Connecticut as a new national historic landmark. Our colleague and YIPP advisor, John…
Mapping the Landscape of Native New England
One of the more perplexing geographic features of southern New England is Dighton Rock, a 40-ton, 11½ by 5 foot sandstone boulder once located on the east side of the Taunton River in the present-day town of Berkely, Massachusetts. Nicknamed…
Inside a Connecticut Indian Wigwam
In the fall of 1761, Ezra Stiles visited the Western Niantic Indian community in the Niantic-East Lyme, Connecticut area. Of the several Indian dwellings or wigwams standing there, he made sketches of two in particular, that of George Waukeets and Phoebe…
Can you name the author of this map?
The individual who drew this map also made sketches of other New England Indian communities. In the upcoming months, check the Project’s web archives to see more of them.