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Marcia Jones Flowers (1946-2016)

by Paul Grant-Costa • July 4, 2016 • 0 Comments

We share the sad news of the passing of our friend, colleague, and mentor, Marcia Jones Flowers (Dreaming Spirits). The former chairwoman of the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and the community’s genealogist and historian, she spearheaded one of the federal recognition…

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A New Grant, A Shift to Massachusetts

by Paul Grant-Costa • June 16, 2016 • 0 Comments

We are pleased to announce a grant award from the National Archives’ National Historical Publications & Records Commission. The funds will support one year of the editorial preparation and electronic publication of a portion of the Project’s The Massachusetts Collection.…

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Mi’kmaq Manuscript Available At The Beinecke

by Paul Grant-Costa • February 10, 2016 • 0 Comments

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is pleased to announce that they have acquired and digitized a rare 19th century Mi’kmaq (Micmac) liturgical manuscript. The prayers are written chiefly in hieroglyphic script, with a few lines including interlinear transliteration…

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Yale Indian Papers Project Collaborates with Harvard on Mellon Funded Initiative

by Tobias Glaza • January 27, 2016 • 3 Comments

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…

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The Eastern Pequot Journals of the Reverend Joseph Fish

by Tobias Glaza • September 14, 2015 • 0 Comments

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…

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Please Help Fund the Story of the Mashpee Nine

by Paul Grant-Costa • May 16, 2015 • 0 Comments

A story of injustice, outrage, activism, and vindication that emboldened cultural pride and integrity for the Mashpee Wampanoag in 1976 During the summer of 1976 the revival of cultural and traditional values of the Mashpee Wampanoag was occurring at the…

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Samson Occom and Brothertown Stories on Rhode Island NPR

by Paul Grant-Costa • July 18, 2019

“The impact of early European immigration on Native Americans in New England is examined through the story of Samson Occom, a brilliant Mohegan Indian from Eastern Connecticut who gains fame on two continents before his story takes a dramatic and…

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Faith Damon Davison (1940-2019)

by Paul Grant-Costa • May 19, 2019

We share the sad news of the passing of our friend, colleague, and mentor, Faith Damon Davison. A wonderfully caring person, Faith was an elder, Nonner, and former Archivist of the Mohegan tribal community. One of the Native elders we…

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A Narragansett Witness to History

by Paul Grant-Costa • April 13, 2019

 One hundred fifty-four years ago today, on the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Seated in the audience that night, a…

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