Welcome back

It’s been a pretty busy summer.  With the kind assistance of the Divinity School Library, we’ve been making good progress in getting the Project’s new website and database ready for publication and, along the way, have given several presentations.  Now, with the new academic semester right in front of us, we’re ready for more a regular posting schedule to share our discoveries and insights into the documentary record.

One of the highlights of the past few months was our participation in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s summer institute for high school teachers, which this year was entitled “Indigenous Atlantic: Encounters, Exchanges, and Endurance.”

Organized and coordinated under the leadership of Anya Montiel, the institute gathered twenty-five teachers from as far away as San Antonio, TX, San Jose, CA, Miami, FL, and from all over the East Coast for presentations and activities that focused on the lives and experiences of the indigenous societies of the Caribbean and New England.

The sessions drew upon the abundant resources of Yale University’s museums, libraries, and faculty, and included a tour of the Native American Collections within the Peabody Museum and of the Caribbean archaeological collections at West Campus.  Attendees also enjoyed a Wampanoag dinner prepared by Sherry Pocknett & Sly Fox’s Den Catering.

Institute Presenters

    • Jace Weaver (Cherokee), University of Georgia, Learning and Teaching the Red Atlantic (keynote address)
    • Gabrielle Tayac (Piscataway), NMAI, At the Mother of Waters: Chesapeake Native Peoples over Time
    • Tobias Glaza and Paul Grant-Costa, Yale University, Locating the Past through Paper
    • Tobias Glaza and Paul Grant-Costa, Yale University,  Unravelling King Philips’ War: A Teachers’ Workshop Using Primary Source Native American Materials
    • Rachel Purvis, University of Mississippi, The Southeastern Indian Slave Trade to Indians as Slave Traders
    • Christine DeLucia, Mt. Holyoke College, Past and Presence in the Dawnland: History, Myth, and Memory in Native New England
    • Marisa Nakasone, Yale University Art Gallery, Images of the Native Atlantic
    • Jorge Estevez (Taino), NMAI, Interacting with Taino Culture, Past and Present through Objects
    • David Gary, Yale University, Accessing Digital Resources
    • L. Antonio Curet, NMAI, Islands in the Stream: The Archaeology of the Caribbean Islands

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