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Alaska Cultural Exchange – Summer 2015 – Field Journal
June 25 – Yikes! Alarm accidentally set for 2:50pm instead of 2:50am. Overslept a little, but up early to catch a shuttle from Mashantucket Pequot Reservation to Hartford for this year’s cultural exchange. This year, I travel with co-chaperone Crissy … Continue reading
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Voyaging on the Charles W. Morgan (Or, the Indian Mariners Project Goes Before the Mast)
The 38th Voyage of the American whaleship Charles W. Morgan is fast approaching and I will be one of the voyagers aboard her when she sails. This has been an extraordinary multi-year restoration project during which time I have had … Continue reading
She Dreams of Home
From the outset of the Indian Mariners Project, I have wanted to demonstrate for a wider audience the intersection of history, community, and identity in Native New England (and by extension, Long Island). My friend Courtney Leonard has brought that … Continue reading
Pequots, the Lost Ship Hudson, and the Giants of Patagonia
As the Indian Mariners Project continues to unfold, I probe ever deeper into archives that I think I know well, only to find more. This is not a story of shipwrecks, ghost ships, or anything of that sort. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Amos George, Austin George, Benjamin F. Bourne, Falkland Islands, Giants of Patagonia, Mashantucket Pequot, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mystic, Mystic Seaport, Mystic Seaport Collections Research Center, Patagonia, Peter Babcock, Peter George, Porto San Julian, Ship Hudson
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Visiting Mashpee and Aquinnah
This past Friday I drove up to Mashpee to visit my friends from that tribe and to give a talk at the Mashpee Public Library on the Indian Mariners Project. Once I arrived in Mashpee, I stopped by the Mashpee … Continue reading
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Tagged Aquinnah, Aquinnah Cultural Center, Gay Head, Indian whalemen, Jason Mancini, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashpee, Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Mystic Seaport, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, whaling exhibit
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