Indian New England Before the Mayflower
Description
In offering here a highly readable yet comprehensive description of New England's Indians as they lived when European settlers first met them, the author provides a well-rounded picture of the natives as neither savages nor heroes, but fellow human beings existing at a particular time and in a particular environment. He dispels once and for all the common notion of native New England as peopled by a handful of savages wandering in a trackless wilderness.In sketching the picture the author has had help from such early explorers as Verrazano, Champlain, John Smith, and a score of literat...
ISBN(s)
0874512557, 9780874512557
