The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century : $b An ethnohistorical surveyMarten, Catherine
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The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century : $b An ethnohistorical survey
Marten, Catherine
Indians of North America -- New England -- History -- 17th century; Wampanoag Indians
46. Macy, Zaccheus, “A Short Journal of the First Settlement of the
Island of Nantucket,” MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS,
Series 1, Vol. III, 1794, pp. 155-60.
Description of settlement of the island in 1659 speaks briefly
of the Indians as kind and hospitable people. Gives population
figures in 1763 (358) prior to an epidemic in the same year that
substantially eradicated that population.
47. Miller, W.J., NOTES CONCERNING THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF INDIANS
(Providence) 1880.
Concerns the history of English dealings with the tribe; no
ethnographic data.
48. Mooney, James, “The Aboriginal Population of America North of
Mexico,” SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, Vol. LXXX, no. 7,
(February, 1928).
Gives estimate of population for the area. Presumably this is based
on historical sources rather than any formula, although he does not
say how the figures were arrived at.
49. Mooney, J., “Handbook of American Indians,” BULLETIN OF THE
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, XXX, Vols. I and II, 1910, pp. 810
(vol. I), 903-4 (vol. II).
For the Wampanoag there is a brief description concerning matters
of history, linguistics, and population. There is also a list of
town names.
50. Morton, Thomas, THE NEW ENGLISH CANAAN, (Boston: The Prince
Society) 1883.
This work, originally published in 1637, is a basic source for the
study of both early colonists and Indians; covers all aspects of
Indian culture. The tribe being described is the Massachusett.
51. MOURT’S RELATION (in Young CHRONICLES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS,
etc.)
Originally published in 1622, this is a basic source for Wampanoag
culture in all aspects; also contains the accounts of earliest
Pilgrim dealings with the Indians.
52. Murdock, George Peter, ETHNOGRAPHIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH
AMERICA, 2nd. Edition (New Haven: Human Relations Area Files) 1953.
Contains a list of all published sources on North American Indians
through 1953. All sources that are relevant to the Plymouth area
are included in the present list.
53. Pory, John, JOHN PORY’S LOST DESCRIPTION OF PLYMOUTH (Boston and
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company) 1918.
——also in James, THREE VISITORS, etc.
Description of Indians is brief and relates mostly to
interrelationships with English—trade, hostilities, etc. What
comments there are on culture also pertain to Indians outside the
Plymouth area; no information is included that is not gotten better
from other sources.
54. Potter, E.R., “Early History of Narragansetts,” COLLECTIONS OF
THE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Vol. III (Providence: Marshall
Brown, and Company) 1835.
A compilation of historical data on the Narragansetts. The main
ethnographic source is Williams. There is considerable data on
Indian-colonial dealings from town records.
55. Prince, J.D., “The Last Living Echoes of the Natick,” AMERICAN
ANTHROPOLOGIST, ns., Vol. IX, 1907, pp. 493-98.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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