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America's Early Whalemen : Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650-1750 /
The Indians of coastal Long Island were closely attuned to their maritime environment. They hunted sea mammals, fished in coastal waters, and harvested shellfish. To celebrate the deep-water spirits, they sacrificed the tail and fins of the most powerful and awesome denizen of their maritime world--...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Native peoples of the Americas (Tucson, Ariz.)
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The whale in aboriginal long island culture
- Drift whales : a contentious asset
- Sachems, entrepreneurs, and conflicting sovereignties
- Origins of "ye whaling design" on Long Island
- New needs, old traditions : the cultural impact of "ye whale design"
- Debt peonage and indentured servitude
- Papasaquin's world : politics, economics, and family in seventeenth- century Long Island
- Leaving the shore : the end of an era.