Massachusetts nipmucs and the long shadow of John Milton Earle

New England Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 636-653

  Thee, Christopher J ^a  

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References (17)

1. [John Milton Earle], Report to the Governor and Council Concerning the Indians of the Commonwealth under the Act of April 6, 1859, Senate doc. no. 96 of 1861 (Boston: William White, Printer to the Commonwealth, 1861);
2. See also Jean M. O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), pp. 27, 29, 63;
3. Thomas Lewis Doughton, "Notes on the Indian Reservation at Hassanamesit and the People of Hassanamesit (later Grafton, Massachusetts), " Worcester Public Library, Worcester, Mass., p. 4;
4. Neal Salisbury, "Red Puritans: The 'Praying Indians' of Massachusetts Bay and John Eliot," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 31 (January 1974): 31.
5. For a discussion of Native attitudes about residing in Praying Towns, see O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees, p. 30.
6. See also Doughton, "Notes," p. 16.
7. See Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975), pp. 128-46.
8. Report of the commissioners relating to the condition of the Indians in Massachusetts, Massachusetts General Court, House of Representatives, doc. no. 46 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1849);
9. For a general discussion of the theory of disappearance, see Patrick Brantlinger, Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003).
10. For more on the "discourse of disappearance" as it relates to Nipmuc people and Massachusetts Native history, see Doughton, "Shadows in the Stream."
11. See also Thomas L. Doughton, "Unseen Neighbors: Native Americans of Central Massachusetts, A People Who Had "Vanished,'" in Calloway, After King Philip's War, pp. 207-30.
12. Doughton, "Unseen Neighbors," p. 220.
13. Briggs Report, pp. 5, 6.
14. Ruth Hemdon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau, "The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era," in Calloway, After King Philip's War, p. 143.
15. Earle Report, p. 119.
16. Earie Report, p. 48.
17. OFA, Final Determination 69A, p. 167.