The Indian heritage of New Hampshire and northern New England / edited by Thaddeus Piotrowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Piotrowski, Tadeusz, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--New Hampshire.

Indians of North America.

New Hampshire.

Indians of North America--New England.

New England.

Physical Description:

vii, 221 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2002]

Summary:

Years before Jamestown was settled, European adventurers and explorers landed on the shores of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in search of fame, fortune, and souls to convert to Christianity. Unbeknownst to them all, the "New World" they had found was actually a very old one, as the history of the native people spanned 10,000 years or more. This work is a compilation of old and new essays written by present-day archeologists, explorers and missionaries who were in direct contact with the Indians, and scholars over the last three centuries. The essays are divided into three sections: Prehistory, which concentrates on the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, and Woodland phases of the native heritage, the Contact Era, which deals with the explorers and their experiences in the New World, and Collections, Sites, Trails, and Names, which focuses on various dedications to the native population and significant names

Contents:

Part I Prehistory

1. New Hampshire's Prehistoric Settlement and Chronology / Victoria Bunker 23

2. Ancient Lifeways at the Smyth Site / Donald W. Foster, Victoria B. Kenyon, George P. Nicholas II 34

3. The Neville Site: 8,000 Years at Amoskeag / Dena F. Dincauze 44

Part II Contact Era

4. An Investigation into the Cause or Causes of the Epidemic Which Decimated the Indian Population of New England, 1616-1619 / Billee Hoornbeek 49

5. The Manners, Customs, and Some Historical Facts About the Indians of Northern New England (Excerpts from Explorers and Missionaries, 1524-1657) / Harlan A. Marshall 58

6. Monuments and Relics of the Indians / Jeremy Belknap 80

7. The History of Manchester / Chandler E. Potter 85

8. Aboriginal Tribes of New Hampshire / Austin J. Coolidge, John B. Mansfield 92

9. Character of the Penacooks / the Rev. Edward Ballard 95

10. Contributions to the History of Derryfield (Manchester) / William E. Moore 101

11. Indians of New Hampshire / Janine A. Carson 108

12. The Pennacook Lands and Relations: Family Homelands / David Stewart-Smith 119

Part III Collections, Sites, Trails, Names

13. Provenience of Artifacts by New Hampshire Towns / Patricia Hume, Donald Foster 137

14. Indian Sites in the Manchester-Auburn, New Hampshire, Area / Thaddeus Piotrowski 141

15. Cartagena Island / Eugene D. Finch 147

16. Historic Indian Trails of New Hampshire / Chester B. Price 154

17. Ancient Indian Places / Chester B. Price 175

18. Indian Names in New Hampshire / Thaddeus Piotrowski 178.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.

ISBN:

0786410981

OCLC:

48065349