The Pequots in southern New England
Subtitle: the fall and rise of an American Indian nation
By: edited by Laurence M. Hauptman and James D. Wherry ; foreword by William T. Hagan.
Contributors: Hauptman, Laurence M.; Wherry, James.
Edition: 1st paperback printing
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian series -- v. 198
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Pequot Indians -- History; Pequot Indians -- Social life and customs
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.