New Waves, New Prospects
Abstract Over the course of the seventeenth century, sail facilitated a new Wabanaki identity, from the Mi’kmaq coasts of Acadia to the Abenaki woodlands of southern Maine. The technology afforded them the mobility through which they recognized their shared experience of English expansion and the se...
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Oxford University PressNew York
2018
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190874247.003.0004 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/58824894/oso-9780190874247-chapter-4.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Over the course of the seventeenth century, sail facilitated a new Wabanaki identity, from the Mi’kmaq coasts of Acadia to the Abenaki woodlands of southern Maine. The technology afforded them the mobility through which they recognized their shared experience of English expansion and the seapower with which they orchestrated a coordinated campaign of violence and theft against intruding colonists from New England. The destruction strategically coincided with a wider conflagration ravaging southern New England in 1675, King Philip’s War. By the time chief-sagamore Madockawando agreed to cease hostilities in 1677, the new Native alliance had succeeded in reducing the neighboring English presence to a tributary vassalage and enriching the emergent headquarters at Penobscot with plundered sailing technology, artillery, and captives. |
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