History 3010    MacKay

Week 3

Readings:
                Calloway: pgs: 86-94, 126-142

Also: Cramer, "Narragansett Stalking Horse" http://www.claytoncramer.com/pequot.htm

We will consider the issue of "Middle Ground" -- Since its publication in 1991, Richard White's The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815, has influenced numerous studies of the interactions between Native peoples and colonizers. Combining ethnohistorical methods and cultural theory, White emphasized the complex and contingent nature of intercultural communication. In such a view, Indian peoples are active participants in their own histories, and peaceful interchange is as important as violence in understanding Indian-white relations.

See the review of Merrill's Into the American Woods: http://earlyamerica.com/review/2001_winter_spring/bkreview.html

Academic Journal topic: React to the comment: "one of the ironies of the 'discovery' of America is that it rapidly increased rather than reduced the differences between native Americans and Europeans."

Consider these Internet Sites:

Information about Thomas Morton: http://members.aol.com/srasmus/oldentext/merrymount.html

From Annenberg, information for teachers "Souls in Need of Salvation, Satan's Agents, or Brothers in Peace?" http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit03/context_activ-2.html

From Native Languages of the Americas, information about Algonquian: http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/famalg.htm

From American Indian.Com, a list of Algonquian nations : http://www.algonquin.tv/algonquin/default.htm

From the Powhatan Renape Nation, an American Indian Nation located at the Rankokus Indian Reservation in Westhampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey is a critique of the Disney movie about Pocahontas : http://www.powhatan.org/pocc.htm

An excellent map of Northeast Native areas is from the Internet School Library Media Center in Virginia: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/vaindianspowhatan.htm

The Virtual Tour of Jamestown includes John White's images and Wahunsonacock (Powhatan)'s cloak: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/Powhat1.html

From Caleb Johnston's Mayflower Web Pages is a biography of 
Tisquantum  (Squanto): http://members.aol.com/calebj/squanto.html

From a study guide The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony:1620 by Duane A. Cline is a biography of Tisquantum: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mosmd/squanto.htm

As part of Plimoth on the Web is Hobbamock's (Wampanoag Indian) Homesite: http://www.plimoth.org/Museum/Hobbamock/hobbamoc.htm

The Internet site for the Narragansett Tribe is: http://www.narragansett-tribe.org/

From Barnard College seminar on Approaches to Early American Culture, 1607-1865 is information on the Peqout War, including maps and chronology: http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~rmccaugh/earlyAC/lecture_notes/pequotle.html

A map of the "praying towns" is part of a slide presentation on John Elliot: http://www.grad.cgu.edu/~naccarej/presentation/sld012.htm

    A list of the "praying towns" from The Natick Historical Society : http://users.rcn.com/nathissoc/praying.html

From The History Place an excerpt from "King Philip's War in New England by Michael Tougias  http://www.historyplace.com/specials/kingphilip.htm

Edward Randolph's Description of King Philip's War (1685). ([Edward Randolph was an emissary of King James II, sent to colonies to investigate the violations of the Crown's colonial laws (i.e., the Navigation Acts) and the overall state of the colony.): http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/45-ran.html