Ninigret, sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts : diplomacy, war, and the balance of power in seventeenth-century New England and Indian country /

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Ninigret was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In the first biograp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Fisher, Julie A., 1979- (Author), Silverman, David J., 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Ninigret, > approximately 1610-1677.
Ninigret, > approximately 1610-1677
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
1600-1775
Niantic Indians > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Narragansett Indians > Politics and government > 17th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Narraganset
New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
New England
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : picturing Ninigret
  • A chronology of key events in the life of Ninigret
  • Being and becoming a sachem
  • "To obtaine it by force"
  • "I doe but right my owne quarrell"
  • A time of decision
  • Ninigret's Narragansett war
  • Epilogue : the small matter of Eltwood Pomeroy's mare.

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