-
Recent Posts
- Alaska Cultural Exchange – Summer 2015 – Field Journal
- Alaska Cultural Exchange – Summer 2014 – Field Journal
- Voyaging on the Charles W. Morgan (Or, the Indian Mariners Project Goes Before the Mast)
- The Life and Career of Peter George and his Voyage on the Bark North America: An Illustrated Whalehunt
- She Dreams of Home
- Pequots, the Lost Ship Hudson, and the Giants of Patagonia
- Visiting Mashpee and Aquinnah
- New London’s Indian Mariners
- A Sealing Voyage to the Falkland Islands aboard the Schooner Breakwater of Stonington
- Block Island and Indian Pirates
- Point Lay and Barrow, Alaska (the last four days)
- Point Lay (the whale hunt)
- Point Lay (cont’d)
- Barrow and Point Lay, Alaska
- Research Travels: New Zealand
Archives
Tags
- Alaska
- Amos W. George
- Aquinnah
- Bark Nile
- beluga whale
- Charles W. Morgan
- communities of color
- Community
- Courtney Leonard
- Eskimo
- Falkland Islands
- Gift
- Hawaii State Archives
- Indian
- Indian Mariners Project
- Indians
- Inupiaq
- Jason Mancini
- Long Island Indians
- Mashantucket Pequot
- Mashantucket Pequot Museum
- Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
- Mashpee
- Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
- Mohegan
- Mystic
- Mystic Aquarium
- Mystic Seaport
- Native American
- New Bedford Massachusetts
- New Bedford Whaling Museum
- New London
- New London Connecticut
- New London County Historical Society
- North Slope Borough
- people of color
- Pequot
- Pequot Museum
- Peter George
- Point Lay
- Research Travels
- Sam Fagins
- Shinnecock
- Shinnecock Cultural Center and Museum
- Shinnecock Indian Nation
- Ship Electra
- Stonington
- Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
- whaling
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Author Archives: jrmancini
New London’s Indian Mariners
Here’s an article adapted for the Connecticut History website: http://connecticuthistory.org/new-londons-indian-mariners/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged communities of color, Connecticut History, Fishers Island, Indians, Mohegan, Native American, New London, Noank, people of color, Pequot
Leave a comment
A Sealing Voyage to the Falkland Islands aboard the Schooner Breakwater of Stonington
I’m now researching a sealing voyage to the Falkland Islands that was made in 1830 and 1831. At least three of the men involved in this expedition were Indians, including Moses Brushell, Henry Shantup, and Charles Skeesucks. Here are some … Continue reading
Block Island and Indian Pirates
July 20 – I’m vacationing on Block Island, a charming little island 13 miles south of Rhode Island in the Atlantic Ocean. To the Narragansett Indians this place was known as Manisees, “Island of the Little God.” I have been coming here … Continue reading
Point Lay and Barrow, Alaska (the last four days)
July 5 – the day after… Having crashed at 9pm, I was up and out of the house by 6am. It was cool, windy, and no mosquitos. Crissy soaked her Bog boots during the harvest and borrowed my extra pair, … Continue reading
Point Lay (the whale hunt)
Wednesday, July 3 – 24 hours of sun is beginning to play with my internal clock. Slept until noon and don’t think that’s happened since college. Played a couple of games of Farcle with my housemates. A game with 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Alaska, beluga whale, Inupiaq, Jason Mancini, Mashantucket Pequot, Pequot, Pequot Museum, Point Lay, Research Travels, whaling
Leave a comment
Point Lay (cont’d)
Tuesday, July 2 – no report of whales. Warm day, about 60F, little wind, and mosquitos very bad. A neighbor’s dog got loose and tangled up in the seal net at the research house and ended up in the ditch … Continue reading
Barrow and Point Lay, Alaska
BARROW Saturday, June 29 – expecting a very early start, I slept at Shelly Scott’s house on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation; left 2:30am to meet Crissy Gray, Ashanti Kelly, Brianna Sebastian, and Shaquanna Sebastian at tribal community center; Tina Menihan … Continue reading
