Academic Resources

Below is a sample of the readings and videos that will be part of the two-week institute. Participants will be able to access the full list of readings and videos online in the weeks leading up to the institute's start date.

Books & Articles

Advanced Reading: “Approaching American Indian History” Major Problems in American Indian History, ed. Albert L. Hutado, Peter Iverson, William J. Bauer, Jr., and Stephen Kent Amerman (Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2015), pgs. 1-23.

  • Linda Tuhiwai Smith, "Introduction" Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed Books Ltd., 2021) pgs. 1-18

  • Excerpts from Why You Can`t Teach United States History without American Indians (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015) pgs. 9 - 42

  • Wendy Warren. "The Cause of Her Grief" and "Beginning," New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early New England (New York: WW Norton & Company, Inc. 2016) pgs. 1-48

  • Robert Cushman, "Reasons and Considerations touching the lawfulness of removing out of England into the parts of America" (Mourt's Relation Heath ed. pg. 88 - 96)

  • Eugene Stratton, "Old-Comers," Plymouth Colony: It's History and People, 1620-1691(Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Publishing, 1986) pgs. 17-36

  • "A Journey Made to Pokanoket" (Mourt's Relation Heath ed. pg. 60-68)

  • "A Letter sent from New England to a friend in these parts" (Mourt's Relation, pg. 81-87)

  • Introduction to the Tomaquag Museum Edition of Roger Williams' A Key to the Language of America. Dawn Dove, Sandra Robinson, Loren Spears, Dorothy Herman Papp, Kathleen Bragdon eds. (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2019)

  • D. Rae Gould and Stephen A. Mrozowski, "Introduction: Histories That Have Futures" Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories That Have Futures (Gainesville, FL: University Press fo Florida, 2020) pgs. 1-26

  • Christine DeLucia, "The Memory Frontier: Uncommon Pursuits of Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War," The Journal of American History 98:4 (March 2021): 975-997

  • Cotton Mather and William Appes, "Two Views of King Philip" ed. Colin Calloway. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004) pg. 121 - 130

Videos

  • Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, "We Must Decolonize our Museums" (TedX Dirigo) 9:24

  • Interview with Nanepashmet (Director of Wampanoag Indigenous Program, 1980 - 1992)