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- 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
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- Point Lay (the whale hunt)
- Point Lay (cont’d)
- Barrow and Point Lay, Alaska
- Research Travels: New Zealand
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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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New London’s Indian Mariners
Here’s an article adapted for the Connecticut History website: http://connecticuthistory.org/new-londons-indian-mariners/
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Tagged communities of color, Connecticut History, Fishers Island, Indians, Mohegan, Native American, New London, Noank, people of color, Pequot
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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
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Tagged Alaska, beluga whale, Inupiaq, Jason Mancini, Mashantucket Pequot, Pequot, Pequot Museum, Point Lay, Research Travels, whaling
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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
Research Travels: New Zealand
Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Thanks to the hard work of Betty Apes, Barry O’Connell, and others, a link connecting the Maori descendants of Elisha Apes and his Mashantucket Pequot roots in Groton, Connecticut was established in the 1990s. To … Continue reading
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Tagged Elisha Apes, Huirapa, James Tiemi Apes, Karitane, Maori, New London, New Zealand, Ngai Tahu, Pequot, Research Travels, Ship Ann Maria, whaling
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Research Travels: Australia
From June 12-14, 2013, I attended the Sea Stories: Maritime Landscapes, Cultures and Histories Conference at the University of Sydney. The presentations were excellent with a distinctly, but not exclusively, Australian perspective. More than that, kangaroos, koalas and the bush – … Continue reading
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Research Travels: Shinnecock Indian Nation, Long Island, New York – June 2013
On June 6, 2013, I traveled across the waters of Long Island Sound to present my research on the Indian Mariners Project at the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum. During my stay I was able to spend time with … Continue reading
Moshup, Whales, and Wampanoag Maritime Narratives
The Indian communities of coastal southern New England and Long Island have important cultural ties to the sea. This is exhibited in their histories, story-telling, activities, and art. Here are some examples. As related by Thomas Cooper, a Native of … Continue reading
The Roots of Collaboration with Mystic Seaport
The Roots of Collaboration with Mystic Seaport I have had an ongoing collaboration with Mystic Seaport since I became a Cuffe Fellow (Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship) in 2006. My paper “Beyond Reservation: Indians, Maritime Labor, and Communities of Color from … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles W. Morgan, Collections Research Center, communities of color, Indian Mariners Project, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Morgan whaleship, Mystic Seaport, NEH, Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, people of color, The American Maritime People
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The Indian Mariners Project
Jason R. Mancini, Ph.D from the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center A number of years ago I came across a footnote in a book that referenced two Indian men, Peter George and Benjamin George, in the Records of … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indian, Aquinnah, communities of color, Eastern Pequot, Indian, Indian Mariners Project, Jason Mancini, Katie Raia, Lantern Hill Pequot, Mashantucket Pequot, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashpee, Mohegan, Montauk, Mystic, Mystic Seaport, Narragansett, Native American, Nehantic, New Bedford Massachusetts, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New London Connecticut, Niantic, Nipmuc, people of color, Pequot, Pequot Museum, Shinnecock, Stonington, Wampanoag, whaling, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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The Indian Mariners Project 