After King Philip's War : presence and persistence in Indian New England / edited, with an introduction by Colin G. Calloway

CONTENTS: Introduction : surviving the dark ages / Colin G. Calloway -- Revisiting The redeemed captive : new perspectives on the 1704 attack on Deerfield / Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney -- The "disappearance" of the Abenaki in western Maine : political organization and ethnocentric assumptions / David L. Ghere -- The first whalemen of Nantucket / Daniel Vickers -- The right to a name : the Narragansett people and Rhode Island officials in the Revolutionary Era / Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau -- "Divorced" from the land : resistance and survival of Indian women in eighteenth-century New England / Jean M. O'Brien -- "Once more let us consider" : William Apess in the writing of New England Native American history / Barry O'Connell -- The Massachusetts Indian Enfranchisement Act : ethnic contest in historical context, 1849-1869 / Ann Marie Plane and Gregory Button -- Unseen neighbors : Native Americans of central Massachusetts, a people who had "vanished" / Thomas L. Doughton -- Tribal network and migrant labor : Mi'kmaq Indians as seasonal workers in Aroostook's potato fields, 1870-1980 / Harald E.L. Prins

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1997

1997

vi, 268 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-254) and index