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- 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
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Tag Archives: Jason Mancini
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
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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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
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 