This online resource draws from the excellent research and valued insights of many scholars and speakers.
To learn more…
Read:
Brooks, Lisa, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (2018)
Clark, Michael P., ed., The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter (2003)
Cogley, Richard W., John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War (1999)
Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (2003)
DeLucia, Christine M., Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (2018)
Drake, James D., King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-76 (1999)
Lopenzina, Drew, Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period (2012)
Mandell, Daniel R., Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (1996)
Mann, Larry Spotted Crow, Drumming and Dreaming (2017)
Newell, Margaret Ellen, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery (2016)
O’Brien, Jean M., Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 (1997)
Senier, Siobhan, ed., Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England (2014)
Silverman, David, This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving (2019)
Watch:
The Land as a Living Witness with Lance Young: https://youtu.be/P56wtiLb1to
A Town Called 'Rejoycing' with Drew Lopenzina: https://newtv.org/recent-video/78-historic-newton-presents/6615-newton-history-series-a-town-called-rejoicing
Ecologies of Acknowledgment: https://vimeo.com/354699007
We Still Live Here: https://www.makepeaceproductions.com/wampfilm.html
If you would like to learn more about contemporary Indigenous communities in New England, here are a few places to start:
The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag: https://massachusetttribe.org/
The Nipmuc Nation: https://www.nipmucmuseum.org/
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe: https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head: https://wampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/
The Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag: https://natickprayingindians.org/index.html
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center: http://www.pequotmuseum.org/default.aspx
The Wabanaki Nations: https://www.abbemuseum.org/about-the-wabanaki-nations
Credits:
"I Heard That Word..." is a living resource; research and interpretation has been a joint project of Historic Newton and the Natick Historical Society.
Image and Video Credits:
Staff Images: Rachel Speyer-Besancon, Natick Historical Society; Lisa Dady, Historic Newton; Clara Silverstein, Historic Newton
Native American Wetu: Kirsten Dirksen, FairCompanies.com
Amplifier Project - Elizabeth Solomon, Native Voices: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Header Image: Quinobequin (Charles River), Spring 2020. Image courtesy of the Natick Historical Society.