Connecticut's indigenous peoples [electronic resource] : what archaeology, history, and oral traditions teach us about their communities and cultures / Lucianne Lavin; with a contribution by Paul Grant-Costa; edited by Rosemary Volpe.

Connecticut's indigenous peoples [electronic resource] : what archaeology, history, and oral traditions teach us about their communities and cultures / Lucianne Lavin; with a contribution by Paul Grant-Costa; edited by Rosemary Volpe.

9780300195194 (electronic book)
9780300186642
0300186649

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2013.

English

1 online resource (xvi, 480 pages)

E78.C7 L36 2013eb

974.6/01

More than 10,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering book is the first to provide a full account of Connecticut's indigenous peoples, from the long-ago days of their arrival to the present day. The author, Lucianne Lavin, draws on exciting new archaeological and ethnographic discoveries, interviews with Native Americans, rare documents including periodicals, archaeological reports, master's theses and doctoral dissertations, conference papers, newspapers, and government records, as well as her own ongoing archaeological and documentary research. She creates a fascinating and remarkably detailed portrait of indigenous peoples in deep historic times before European contact and of their changing lives during the past 400 years of colonial and state history. She also includes a short study of Native Americans in Connecticut in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book brings to light the richness and diversity of Connecticut's indigenous histories, corrects misinformation about the vanishing Connecticut Indian, and reveals the significant roles and contributions of Native Americans to modern-day Connecticut. -- Publisher description

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-447) and index.

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