Teaching Hidden Histories - Misconception: English colonists were “the first” to settle...

Misconception: English colonists were “the first” to settle and productively “use” this region’s resources, lands, etc.; propagated by 19th century depictions of settlement of towns/ commemorations of town incorporation anniversaries, imagery,

For Context: Emerson W. Baker “Salem as Frontier Outpost,” in Dane Morrison and Nancy Schultz, eds., Salem: Place, Myth and Memory. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004, 21-42.

William Apess, Eulogy on King Philip, 1836

William Apess, Pequot minister, in Eulogy on King Philip, 1836, proposes undoing narrative of Indian “replacement” and advocates telling history from New England Indian point of view

History of the Town of Manchester, 1895

D. F. (Darius Francis) Lamson.History of the town of Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1645-1895 online, p. 5-7:

Describes how Native Americans “made no history…”

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An Address Given at Topsfield Massachusetts Two Hundredth Anniversary,1850

An address delivered at Topsfield in Massachusetts, August 28, 1850 : the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town / by Nehemiah Cleaveland. ...

An Address Given at Topsfield Massachusetts Two Hundredth Anniversary Nehemiah Cleaveland 1850, online, pp 5-8

Samuel de Champlain map of Beauport (Gloucester) with representations of Native peoples, 1613

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Map drawn by Samuel de Champlain (ca.1567-1635), Les Voyages. Map originally printed in Paris, 1613. Cape Ann Museum. Gift of Tamara Greeman, 2011. [Accession #2011.34]

Massachusetts Seals

Copy of Essex County Seals

Slideshow of MA seals

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Breakdown of images/text on state of Massachusetts seal

Euro-centric images of Native peoples

John White Drawings/Theodor De Bry engravings, including “Indian Conjuror” accessed online

http://www.virtualjamestown.org/images/white_debry_html/introduction.html

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