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Author Lavin, Lucianne, author.

Title Connecticut's Indigenous peoples : what archaeology, history, and oral traditions teach us about their communities and cultures / Lucianne Lavin, Institute of American Indian Studies ; with a contribution by Paul Grant-Costa, Yale Indian Papers Project ; edited by Rosemary Volpe, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 480 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Archaeology in Connecticut -- 1 Connecticut�s Earliest Settlers: The Paleo-Indian Period -- 2 Coping with New Environments: The Early Archaic Period -- 3 Surviving in Hot, Dry Homelands: The Middle Archaic Period -- 4 The Hunter-Gatherer Florescence: The Late Archaic Period -- 5 Environmental Stress and Elaborate Ritual: The Terminal Archaic Period -- 6 Closure, Continuity, and the Seeds of Change: The Early Woodland Period
7 Prosperity and Population Growth: The Middle Woodland Period8 Ecological Abundance and Tribal Homelands: The Late Woodland Period -- 9 Beaver Skins for Iron Axes: The Final Woodland Period -- 10 Surviving European-American Colonialism: A.D. 1633 into the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- References -- Figure Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary More than 13,000 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. 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 historictimes 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 inConnecticut 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-447) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Indians of North America -- Connecticut -- History
Indians of North America -- Connecticut -- Antiquities
Indians of North America -- Connecticut -- Folklore
Oral tradition -- Connecticut
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Antiquities
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Oral tradition
SUBJECT Connecticut -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93002243
Subject Connecticut
Genre/Form Folklore
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300195194
0300195192