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Discusses the motifs in Indian captivity narratives. Puritan phase; Examination of the motifs of Indian cannibalism and infanticide; Relationship of narratives to the Puritan world view.

The article offers information on the March 2-4, 2017 Society of Early Americanists Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Topics include a presentation by historian Annette Kolodny on the use of the term 'genocide' to refer to historical crimes against Native Americans, a roundtable on creativity in early American literature, and research on captivity narrative related to Native Americans in early U.S. history.

The article discusses patterns of landholding among Indians of the Hudson River Valley during the Colonial period. Indians discussed are divided by language, the Munsee and Mahican speakers, which include the Mahicans, the Esopus, Haverstraws, the Hackensacks, the Tappans, the Nevesinks, the Wiechquaesgecks, and the Wappingers. Topics include the political autonomy delegated to Indian tribes during the period, missionaries to Indians, the existence of both collective and individual property rights and land tenure within tribal land holdings, and legal disputes regarding rights and ownership of property and the legality of land sales.

Recent anthropological work demonstrates rising concern for understanding group-level autonomy, particularly the maintenance of opposition to expanding states and economic systems. Archaeologists are well poised to contribute to this effort, especially when aided by renewed attention to Eric Wolf's concept of process. Wolf's concept can be applied to indigenous-driven, broad-scale processes of intercommunity connection to help understand the generation and maintenance of autonomy in the face of colonial encroachment. Archaeologically informed reexamination of the relationships between the principal Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) homeland towns and satellite communities during 1600-1775 provides a case study. In many parts of the Iroquois homeland, large towns were surrounded by nearby small satellite villages; Iroquois people also founded communities distant from the homeland, moving into what is now Ontario, Quebec, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Both nearby and distant Iroquois satellites manifested incorporation of outside groups and colonization of new territories--Native-led processes that helped maintain Iroquois autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the relationship between the Wabanaki Indians, who lived in northern New England and southern Québec, with French Catholic missionaries during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The author discusses how, during a period of great tension between the English and the French in this region, many Wabanaki chose to ally themselves with the French, who, through their religious leaders, demonstrated charity towards the Wabanaki when they were ill or injured. The article pays particular attention to the blending of Catholic and traditional Wabanaki rituals and practices such as dances, baptisms and prayer.

Dedicated in 1887 in Springfield, Massachusetts, The Puritan is a large bronze statue of a menacing figure clutching a huge Bible. Commissioned as a memorial to Deacon Samuel Chapin (1595-1675), The Puritan was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and erected in an urban park surrounded by factories and tenements. After repeated vandalism, it was moved "uphill" to Springfield's cultural quadrangle in 1899. Contextualizing The Puritan in geographic and affective terms, this essay argues that the statue's public disavowal was conditioned by Saint-Gaudens's general disdain for New England's seventeenth-century founding fathers and in particular their fraught relationships with American Indians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reflecting on developments in Native American history over the past generation and on my own work, this article considers the limitations of trying to "fit" Indian history into American history. Instead, it suggests placing the history of the United States in a longer and larger continental history and viewing Indian history as a part of global history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses issues concerning race in the colonial southern United States. The author focuses on the experience of African Americans and American Indians and raises questions concerning their legal status and definitions of race and racial ideologies. The author also discusses the work of scholars Oscar Handlin, Mary F. Handlin, and James H. Sweet.

This article discusses the history of scholarship concerning the Indians that inhabited the colonies of the southeastern United States. The author recounts the historiography of studying the American Indians dating back to the 1970s, including the work of scholars Gary B. Nash, Richard White, and J. Leitch Wright, Jr.