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Native American Archival Resources for the Merrimack Valley and Beyond

Designed by Taylor Szeto

Indigenous Livelihoods Disrupted (sign facsimile)

Changes in the Land, Revised Edition by William Cronon (Afterword by); John Demos (Foreword by)
Call Number: Lydon Library GF 504 .N45 C76 2003

ISBN: 9780809016341

Publication Date: 2003-09-01

Forced Relocation Made Native Americans More Vulnerable to Climate Change, Study Shows
Bennett, "Damming Fish and Indians: Starvation and Dispossession in Colonial Massachusetts"
Appears in Junto, a Group Blog on Early American History, January 9, 2020.
Neilson, "History: Smallpox killed Wilmington’s Indians"
Wilmington Town Crier, December 5, 2020.
Malpica, "Uncommon Ground: Pawtucket-Pennacook Strategic Land Exchange in Native Spaces and Colonized Places of Essex County and Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century"
"An early deed of the transfer of land"
From The Record of a City: A Social Survey of Lowell, Massachusetts by George Frederick Kenngott , published 1912.
Reardon, "Fishing and the Rural Economy Farmer-Fishermen and the Merrimack River 1800–1846"
The New England Quarterly
Vol. 89, No. 1 (March 2016), pp. 54-83

Designed by Taylor Szeto
Sign is located on the lawn of Allen House, overlooking the Merrimack River.

Praying Town: Wamesit (sign facsimile)

An Account of the Wamesit Purchase
By Henry S. Perham, Chelmsford. Read before the Old Residents' Historical Association, Lowell, Mass. February 16th , 1897.
"The Last of the Sachems of the Merrimac River Indians"
By Charles Cowley, LL.D, read May 28, 1891
"John Eliot's Work at Wamesit"
By Charles Cowley, LL.D.
Sarah of Wamesit
From the site: Our Beloved Kin, Remapping a New History of King Phillip's War by Lisa Brooks.
Samuel Numphow's Letter to the Governor of Massachusetts
In October 1675, Samuel Numphow traveled from his home at the mission community of Wamesit, in Patucket territory, up the Molôdemak River towards Penacook. Numphow was the son of a traditional leader and convert "ruler" from the fishing falls at Patucket.
Samuel Numphow’s Journey: A View from Winnepesaukee
From the site Our Beloved Kin: Remapping a New History of King Phillips War by Lisa Brooks.
Ethnicity in Lowell, Chapter 2 "Pawtucket and Wamesit: The Challenges of [Reconstructing the History of Two New England Native Communities"
By Robert Forrant and Christoph Strobel for the National Park Service. Published 2011.
Leavenworth, “‘The Best Title That Indians Can Claime:’ Native Agency and Consent in the Transferal of Penacook-Pawtucket Land in the Seventeenth Century.”
The New England Quarterly
Vol. 72, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 275-300
David Stewart-Smith, "The Pennacook Indians and the New England frontier, circa 1604-1733"
Strobel, "Uncovering Indigenous Worlds and Histories on a Bend of a New England River before the 1650s: Problematizing Nomenclature and Settler Colonial History, Deep History, and Early Colonization Narratives"
American Studies Journal, Number 69, 2020.
Strobel, “Indigenous Peoples of the Merrimack River Valley in the Early Seventeenth Century: An Atlantic Perspective on Northeastern America”
On the site, World History Connected.
Bell, "Discerning Native Placemaking: Archaeologies and Histories of Den Rock Area, Lawrence and Andover, Massachusetts"
Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut, 2013, V.75.

Designed by Taylor Szeto

What Remains (sign facsimile)
Hutchison, "Indigenous Remains: An Account of the Discovery of Indigenous Remains Unearthed at the Lowell Textile School 1901"
Federal Register/Vol. 80, No. 38/Thursday, February 26, 2015/Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert
S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology,
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Small, "Push to Return 116,000 Native American Remains Is Long-Awaited"
New York Times, August 6, 2021.
“Lowell in 1826, written by A.B. Wright” Old Residents Historical Association, Vol. III, P. 414.

Importance of Symbols

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Mascot Matters (sign facsimile)

What's Wrong with this Picture?

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