Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples: What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures - Hardcover

Lavin, Lucianne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300186649 ISBN 13: 9780300186642

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2013

Synopsis

A groundbreaking volume on the rich 13,000-plus-year history and culture of Connecticut’s indigenous peoples
 More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering book is the first to provide a full account of Connecticut’s indigenous peoples, from the long-ago days of their arrival to the present day. Lucianne Lavin draws on exciting new archaeological and ethnographic discoveries, interviews with Native Americans, rare documents including periodicals, archaeological reports, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, conference papers, newspapers, and government records, as well as her own ongoing archaeological and documentary research. She creates a fascinating and remarkably detailed portrait of indigenous peoples in deep historic  times before European contact and of their changing lives during the past 400 years of colonial and state history. She also includes a short study of Native Americans in Connecticut in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book brings to light the richness and diversity of Connecticut’s indigenous histories, corrects misinformation about the vanishing Connecticut Indian, and reveals the significant roles and contributions of Native Americans to modern-day Connecticut. 

About this title

Book Description:

This groundbreaking volume draws on exciting recent archaeological and ethnographic findings to provide a full account of Connecticut’s indigenous peoples throughout their 13,000-year history.

About the Author:

Lucianne Lavin is Director of Research and Collections at the Institute for American Indian Studies. She lives in northwestern Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300186649
• ISBN 13: 9780300186642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Volpe Rosemary