The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New EnglandThaddeus Piotrowski Years before Jamestown was settled, European adventurers and explorers landed on the shores of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in search of fame, fortune, and souls to convert to Christianity. Unbeknownst to them all, the "New World" they had found was actually a very old one, as the history of the native people spanned 10,000 years or more. This work is a compilation of old and new essays written by present-day archeologists, by explorers and missionaries who were in direct contact with the Indians, and by scholars over the last three centuries. The essays are in three sections: Prehistory, which concentrates on the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, and Woodland phases of the native heritage, the Contact Era, which deals with the explorers and their experiences in the New World, and Collections, Sites, Trails, and Names, which focuses on various dedications to the native population and significant names (such as the Massabesic Trail and the Cohas Brook site). |
Contents
Victoria Bunker | 23 |
Ancient Lifeways at the Smyth Site Donald W Foster | 34 |
8000 Years at Amoskeag Dena F Dincauze | 44 |
The Manners Customs and Some Historical Facts About | 58 |
Monuments and Relics of the Indians Jeremy Belknap | 80 |
Aboriginal Tribes of New Hampshire Austin J Coolidge | 92 |
Contributions to the History of Derryfield Manchester | 101 |
Indians of New Hampshire Janine A Carson | 108 |
Other editions - View all
The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England Thaddeus Piotrowski Limited preview - 2015 |
The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England Thaddeus Piotrowski Limited preview - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
Abenaki Amoskeag Falls archaeological artifacts bank Berry Collection MHA bifaces Boston called canoes chief coast Cocheco Cocheco River Cohas Brook colonists Concord Contoocook corn County cultural disease Dover early east Eliot England Indians English epidemic excavation fishing place French Gookin Hamp Hampshire Archeologist Historical Society Indian village Island John Kancamagus Lake Winnipesaukee land Late Archaic located Maine Massabesic Massachusetts Merrimack River Merrimack Valley Middle Archaic Mohawk moun Namaoskeag Nashua natives Neville Nipmuck Northeast northern New England occupation old Indian trail Ossipee Lake Paleo-Indian Passaconaway Pawtucket Pawtucket Falls Pemigewasset Pennacook Pequaket pine Piscataqua Piscataqua River Pond population Potter prehistoric region sachem Saco River sagamore salmon settlement settlers shire shore Smyth Sokoki Souhegan sources stone Sunapee Suncook tain tion town trail led trees tribal tribes Wamesit Weirs Western Abenaki White Mountains wigwams Wonalancet wood Woodland period York