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Early Native Literacies in New England (cid:1)(cid:2) 2277776633 ffrroonnttmmaatttteerr 0011..iinndddd ii 44//44//0088 22::3366::1155 PPMM A volume in the series Native Americans of the Northeast: History, Culture, and the Contemporary 2277776633 ffrroonnttmmaatttteerr 0011..iinndddd iiii 44//44//0088 22::3366::1166 PPMM Early Native Literacies in New England A Documentary and Critical Anthology Edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss (cid:1)(cid:2) University of Massachusetts Press amherst 2277776633 ffrroonnttmmaatttteerr 0011..iinndddd iiiiii 44//44//0088 22::3366::1166 PPMM Copyright © 2008 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 2008oo3196 ISBN 978-1-55849-648-4 (paper); 647-7 (library cloth) Designed by Dennis Anderson Set in Adobe Jenson Pro by dix! Digital Prepress Printed and bound by The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Early native literacies in New England : a documentary and critical anthology / edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-55849-648-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)— ISBN 978-1-55849-647-7 (library cloth : alk. paper) 1. Algonquian Indians—Material culture. 2. Algonquian Indians—Colonization. 3. Algonquian Indians—Communication. 4. Algonquian languages—Writing. 5. Algonquian languages—Texts. 6. Written communication—New England—History. 7. New England—Antiquities. I. Bross, Kristina. II. Wyss, Hilary E. E99.A35E37 2008 974.004'973—dc22 2008003196 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. 2277776633 ffrroonnttmmaatttteerr 0011..iinndddd iivv 44//44//0088 22::3366::1166 PPMM Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Mohegans 15 Oweneco, “Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians in New England, 14 July 1703” 19 David Murray, “Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians, 14 July 1703” 21 Joseph Johnson, “Diary, 1773” 28 Laura J. Murray, “Joseph Johnson’s Diary, Farmington, Connecticut, 18 November 1772 to 1 February 1773” 42 “Mohegan Wood-Splint Basket” 51 Stephanie Fitzgerald, “The Cultural Work of a Mohegan Painted Basket” 52 Samson Occom, “Temperance and Morality Sermon” 57 Heather Bouwman, “Samson Occom and the Sermonic Tradition” 63 “Title Pages from Samson Occom’s Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul” 72 Phillip H. Round, “Samson Occom and Native Print Literacy” 75 2 The Narragansetts 84 Sarah Pharaoh, “The Case of Sarah Pharaoh” 86 Ann Marie Plane, “The Dreadful Case of Sarah Pharaoh: Finding Native Women’s Voices in an Eighteenth-Century Infanticide Case” 88 2277776633 ffrroonnttmmaatttteerr 0011..iinndddd vv 44//44//0088 22::3366::1166 PPMM vi · Contents Sarah Simon, “Letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1769” 93 Hilary E. Wyss, “Writing Back to Wheelock: One Young Woman’s Response to Colonial Christianity” 96 3 Natick 105 Samuel Ponampam, “Confession Narrative, 1656” 108 Kristina Bross, “Temptation in the Wilderness: Ponampam’s Confession” 110 “Natick Indian Petition, 1748” 119 Jean O’Brien, “‘Our Old and Valluable Liberty’: A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of Their Fishing Rights, 1748” 123 4 The Pequots 130 “Pequot Medicine Bundle” 132 Kevin A. McBride, “Bundles, Bears, and Bibles: Interpreting Seventeenth-Century Native ‘Texts’” 132 “The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret” 142 Jodi Schorb, “Seeing Other Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative” 148 5 The Wampanoags 162 “Mittark’s Will, 1681/1703” 164 David J. Silverman, “ ‘We Chief Men Say This’: Wampanoag Memory, English Authority, and the Contest over Mittark’s Will” 166 “The Hannit Family, in Experience Mayhew’s Indian Converts” 174 Laura Arnold Leibman, “Tradition and Innovation in a Colonial Wampanoag Family from Martha’s Vineyard” 191 2277776633 ffrroonnttmmaatttteerr 0011..iinndddd vvii 44//44//0088 22::3366::1166 PPMM Contents · vii 6 Intertribal Conversations 198 “Pictograph Image on a 1725 Treaty” (Wabanaki) 201 Heidi Bohaker, “Reading Expressions of Identity on a 1725 Peace and Friendship Treaty” 201 “Montaukett Petition, 1788” 213 Joanna Brooks, “‘This Indian World’: A Petition/Origin Story from Samson Occom (Mohegan) and the Montaukett Tribe” 215 Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican/Stockbridge), A Short narration of my last Journey to the western Contry 223 Sandra M. Gustafson, “Historical Introduction to Hendrick Aupaumut’s Short Narration” 237 Sandra M. Gustafson, “Hendrick Aupaumut and the Cultural Middle Ground” 242 Bibliography 251 Contributors 269 Index 273 2277776633 ffrroonnttmmaatttteerr 0011..iinndddd vviiiiii 44//44//0088 22::3366::1177 PPMM Illustrations Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, sachem of the Mohegan Indians, 14 July 1703 17–18, 21 Oweneco’s marks 27 Wood-splint basket (Mohegan) 51 Title pages from Moses Paul’s execution sermon by Samson Occom (Mohegan) 72, 73, 74 Sarah Simon (Narragansett), Letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1769 94–95 Natick Indian petition, 1748 120–121 Pictograph image on a 1725 treaty (Wabanaki) 202 ix 2277776633 ffrroonnttmmaatttteerr 0011..iinndddd xx 44//44//0088 22::3366::1177 PPMM
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