The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation (The Civilisation of the American Indian Series, Vol. #198)

Before Their Massacre By Massachusetts Puritans In 1637, The Pequots Were Preeminent In Southern New England. Their Location On The Eastern Connecticut Shore Made Them Important Producers Of The Wampum Required To Trade For Furs From The Iroquois. They Were Also The Only Connecticut Indians To Oppose The Land-hungry English. For Those Reasons, They Became The First Victims Of White Genocide In Colonial America.despite The Pequot War Of 1637, And The Greed And Neglect Of Their White Neighbors And Overseers, The Pequots Endured In Their Ancestral Homeland. In 1983 They Achieved Federal Recognition. In 1987 They Commemorated The 350th Anniversary Of The Pequot War By Organizing The Mashantucket Pequot Historical Conference, At Which Distinguished Scholars Presented The Articles Assembled Here.--book Jacket. Foreword / William T. Hagan -- Part One. Introduction -- New England Indians : Then And Now / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- Part Two. Southern New England Prehistory And Early Pequot History -- A Capsule Prehistory Of Southern New England / Dena F. Dincauze -- The Pequots In The Early Seventeenth Century / William A. Starna -- Native Wampum As A Peripheral Resource In The Seventeenth-century World-system / Lynn Ceci -- Part Three. Pequot Survival -- The Pequot War And Its Legacies / Laurence M. Hauptman -- Indians And Colonists In Southern New England After The Pequot War : An Uneasy Balance / Neal Salisbury -- The Historical Archaeology Of The Mashantucket Pequots, 1637-1900 : A Preliminary Analysis / Kevin A. Mcbride -- The Emergence Of The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, 1637-1975 / Jack Campisi -- The Mystic Voice : Pequot Folklore From The Seventeenth Century To The Present / William S. Simmons -- Part Four. Contemporary Federal And State Policies And Southern New England Indians -- The New England Tribes And Their Quest For Justice / Jack Campisi -- Connecticut's Indian Policy : From Testy Arrogance To Benign Bemusement / Robert L. Bee -- Afterword / James D. Wherry. Edited By Laurence M. Hauptman And James D. Wherry ; Foreword By William T. Hagan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 251-257) And Index. Before their massacre by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637, the Pequots were preeminent in southern New England. Their location on the eastern Connecticut shore made them important producers of the wampum required to trade for furs from the Iroquois. They were also the only Connecticut Indians to oppose the land-hungry English. For those reasons, they became the first victims of white genocide in colonial America. Despite the Pequot War of 1637, and the greed and neglect of their white neighbors and "overseers," the Pequots endured in their ancestral homeland. In 1983 they achieved federal recognition. In 1987 they commemorated the 350th anniversary of the Pequot War by organizing the Mashantucket Pequot Historical Conference, at which distinguished scholars presented the articles assembled here. Despite the presence of approximately 20,000 American Indians in six New England states today, popular misconceptions and a lack of accurate information persist about the region's indigenous peoples. This collection of essays commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Pequot War, which culminated in the almost complete destruction of the tribe by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637.