“They are so frequently shifting their place of residence”: Land and the construction of social place of Indians in colonial Massachusetts

Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 204-216

  O’Brien, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003076711-10     Document Type: Chapter

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