Historical erasure and cultural recovery: Indigenous people in the Connecticut River Valley

• Main Author: Bruchac, Margaret M
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2007
• Subjects: Archaeology|Cultural anthropology|Native Americans|Native studies; Hawthorne; Hitchcock; Indian; abenaki
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3275817

This work explores the impact of the “vanishing Indian” paradigm on historical, museological, and anthropological interpretations of Native American Indian peoples along the Quinneticook—the middle Connecticut River Valley of west-central Massachusetts. The seventeenth century documentation of the r...