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Showing posts with label recent research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recent research. Show all posts

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Recent Research on Nipmuc and Eastern Pequot Lifeways

The following master's theses on Nipmuc and Eastern Pequot lifeways have kindly been donated by the UMAss Boston Historical Archaeology Department. We would like to thank program director Stephen W. Silliman, Ph. D., whose past work includes archaeological field research on the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation’s historic 225–acre reservation.

Cipolla, Craig N. 2005
Negotiating Boundaries of Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Lifeways on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut.

Fedore, Michael A. 2008
Consumption and Colonialism: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Two Eighteenth-Century Sites on the Eastern Pequot Reservation.

Jacobucci, Susan A. 2006
Constant Changes: A Study of Anthropogenic Vegetation Using Pollen and Charcoal on the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut.

Law, Heather 2008
Daily Negotiations and the Creation of an Alternative Discourse: The Legacy of a Colonial Nipmuc Farmstead.

McNeil, Julie A. 2005
Potsherds and People: Considering the Connections between Ceramics and Identity at the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, North Stonington,Connecticut.

Pezzarossi, Guido 2008
Consumption as Social Camouflage: “Mimicry” and Nipmuc Survival Strategies in the Colonial World.

Witt, Thomas A. 2007
Negotiating Colonial Markets: The Navigation of 18th-Century Colonial Economies by the Eastern Pequot.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Recent Research By MPMRC Staff

2008 and the 1st half of 2009 saw the publication of the following works by Mashantucket Pequot Museum research staff.

Handsman, Russell G. "Landscapes of Memory in Wampanoag Country, and the Monuments Upon Them." In Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America, edited by Patricia E. Rubertone. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2008.
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Mancini, Jason R. "Beyond Reservation: Indians, Maritime Labor, and Communities of Color from Eastern Long Island Sound, 1713-1861." In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, edited by Glenn S. Gordinier. Mystic, Conn. : Mystic Seaport, c2008.
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McBride, Kevin. "Pequot Medicine Bundle: Bundles, Bears, and Bibles: Interpreting Seventeenth-Century Native 'Texts'." In Early Native Literacies in New England : a Documentary and Critical Anthology, edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2008.
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McBride, Kevin and David Naumec. Technical Report : Battlefield of Mystic Fort Documentation Plan. Mashantucket, Conn. : Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, 2009. Submitted to National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program, March 1, 2009.
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Naumec, David J. "From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Navy" New England Quarterly, v.81:no.4 (Dec. 2008): 596-635
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Naumec, David J. “Connecticut Indians in the War of Independence.” Connecticut History v.47:no.2 (Fall 2008): 181-218.
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