Mashantucket Pequot Research Library

Mohegan Bibliography

Arnold, Laura K. Crossing Cultures: Algonquian Indians and the Invention of New England. Ph.D. Diss., UCLA, 1995.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .A35 .A76 1995

Baker, Henry A. History of Montville, Connecticut: Formerly the North Parish of New London from 1640 to 1896. Hartford: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard Company, 1896.

READING ROOM: Local History F 104 .M73 B2 1896r

Benton, Myron B. Indians of the Webutuck Valley. Lakeville, CT: Lakeville Journal, 1912.

READING ROOM: Local History E 98 .C7 B 46 1912

Blodgett, Harold. Samson Occom. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Publications, 1935.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 98 .M6 O125 1935

Bonfanti, Leo. The Pequot-Mohican War. Wakefield, MA: Pride Publications, 1971.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .P53 B66 1971

Bradshaw, Harold Clayton. The Indians of Connecticut: The Effect of English Colonization and of Missionary Activity on Indian Life in Connecticut. Deep River, CT: New Era Press, 1935.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .C7 B73 1935

Browne, Gertrude Bell. Hot Suns and the Great Whiteness. Norwich, CT: G. B. Browne, 1927.

STACKS: PS 3503 .R84 H6 1927

Bureau of Indian Affairs 1. "Final Determination that the Mohegan Indian Tribe of Connecticut, Inc., does exist as an Indian Tribe." Federal Register Vol. 59 Issue 50 1994: 12140+.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Burton, William and Richard Lowenthal. "The First of the Mohegans." American Ethnologist 1 (1974): 589-99.

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Bushnell, David I., Jr. "The use of Soapstone by the Indians of the Eastern United States." Annual Report Smithsonian Institution (1940): 471-89.

READING ROOM: Q11.S66 1939

Butler, Eva L 3. Beginnings of Pequot Plantation: A Source History of Southeastern Connecticut in Colonial Times. Unpublished.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Campisi, Jack 1. "A Brief History." Brothertown Indians of Wisconsin. From http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~astephen/hist2.html, accessed 8/28/00. [Web address not accessible as of 2/2008]

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Caverly, Robert Boodey. Battle of the Bush : Dramas Elaborated from the Startling Events of the New England Wars of an Hundred Years. Boston: R. Caverly, 1884-1885.

READING ROOM: Pequot PS 1274 .C7 B38 1884

Chapin, C.F. "Uncas." Proceedings of the Society of Colonial Wars 1 (1903): 23-47.

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"Christian Indians: Mr. Love's Sketch of Samson Occom: Early Converts among Connecticut Red Men." The Daily Courant, March 7, 1894.

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Connecticut. Commissioners on Distribution of Lands of the Mohegan Indians. Report of the Commissioners on Distribution of Lands of the Mohegan Indians. Report to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut.

MULTIMEDIA: PAH I-1139

Connecticut. Governor and Company. Governor and Company of Connecticut, and Moheagan Indians, by their Guardians. Certified Copy of Book of Proceedings before Commissioners of Review, 1743. London: W. & J. Richardson, 1769.

MULTIMEDIA: Sabin 36351

Connecticut Public Television. As We Tell Our Stories. Hartford: Connecticut Public Television, 1994. (VIDEO)

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 78 .C7 A8 1994

Connecticut Public Television. As We Tell Our Stories. Hartford: Connecticut Public Television, 1994. (Transcript of Video)

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Conroy, David W. "The Defense of Indian Land Rights: William Bollan and the Mohegan Case in 1743." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 103 (1993): 395-424.

MULTIMEDIA: Micromedia

De Forest, John William, 1826-1906. History of the Indians of Connecticut : from the Earliest Known Period to 1850. Brighton, Mich.: Native American Book Publishers, 1994.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .C7 D4 1853

Edwards, Jonathan. Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians; in which the Extent of that Language in North-America is Shewn; its Genius is

Grammatically Traced: some of its Peculiarities, and some Instances of Analogy Between that and the Hebrew are Pointed out. New-Haven: Josiah Meigs, 1788.

American Culture Series, Reel 160.1 Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, n.d.

MICROFORM: ACS 160.1

________. "Observations on the Mohegan Language." Massachusetts Historical Society Collections 1823: 81-160.

READING ROOM: F 61 .M41

Eichelberg, Sandra J. Mohegan Sun: The Secret Guide. n.p.: Little People Publications, 1998.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Fawcett, Melissa Jayne The Lasting of the Mohegans: Part I. The Story of the Wolf People. Uncasville, CT: The Mohegan Tribe, 1995.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .M83 F39 1995

Fawcett-Sayet, Melissa. "The Role of GladysTantaquidgeon." Papers of the Fifteenth Algonquian Conference. Ottawa, ON: Carleton University, 1984: 135-45.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .A35 A42 1984

________. "Sociocultural Authority: the Mohegan Case: Revised." Rooted Like the Ash Trees: New England Indians and the Land. Naugatuck, CT: Eagle Wing Press, 1987: 52-3.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N5 R66 1987

Glynn, Frank. "Notes to Wawekas Hill, or Mohegan's Watchtower and Tombstone." Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Connecticut No. 34 June 1966: 39-49.

STACKS: Serials

Gookin, Daniel. An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England, in the Years 1675, 1676, 1677. NY: Arno Press, 1972. (Reprint of 1836 edition.)

READING ROOM: Local History E 83 .67.G66 1972

Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus. A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians, from its Commencement, in the Year 1740, to the Close of the Year 1808, Comprising all the Remarkable Incidents which Took Place at their Missionary Stations during that Period, Interspersed with Anecdotes, Historical Facts, Speeches of Indians, and other Interesting Matter. Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1820. American Culture Series, reel 601.10. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1974.

MICROFORM: ACS 601.10

Holmes, A.A. "Memoir of the Mohegans." Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Series 1 Vol. IX, 1804: 75-99.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

"The Indian Languages", Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, v.X, series 1, 1843, pp.81-160.

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Johnson, Edward Payson, Rev. Early Colonial Efforts for the Improvement of the Indians. New York?: New York Society of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1911?.

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Johnson, Eric Spencer. "Some by Flatteries and others by Threatenings": Political Strategies among Native Americans of Seventeenth-century Southern New England. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993.

STACKS: E 78 .N5 J64 1993

Johnson, Lorenzo D. The Spirit of Roger Williams: With a Portrait of One of His Descendants. Boston: Cassady and March, 1839.

READING ROOM: Local History F82.W78 J64 1839

Johnson, Joseph & Laura J. Murray (ed.). To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1998.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .M83 J657 1998

Leafy, as told to Russell F. Lund. "How the Connecticut Indians Lived." Fragment of Book or Journal, Source Unknown: 3-4.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Levine, Gaynell Stone. Languages and Lore of the Long Island Indians. Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory Volume IV. Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Historical Society, 1980.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N7 L33 1980

Lockman, Paul T. and William Hawk. "Black Native Americans on the East Coast." Free Inquiry in Creative Society 23/1, May 1995: 11-4.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Long, J. Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader: Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians. London: Robson, 1791.

STACKS: E 78 .C2 L685 1791r

Love, William DeLoss. Samson Occom : and the Christian Indians of New England. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1899.

STACKS: Rare E 98 .M6 O13 1899r

Lukens, Margo, " 'I Am from Mohegan! I Am Not Pequot!': Cultural Persistence in the Diary of Fidelia Fielding", The Newberry Library D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian: Occasional Papers in Curriculum Series, No.20, "The Construction of Gender and the Experience of Women in American Indian Societies", January, 1996, Chicago: The Newberry Library.

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McMullen, Ann & Russell G. Handsmen, eds. A Key into the Language of Woodsplint Baskets. Washington, Conn. : American Indian Archaeological Institute, 1987.

READING ROOM: Local History E 98 .B3 K49 1987

McMullen, Ann. Culture by Design: Native identity, historiography, and the reclamation of tradition in twentieth-century Southeastern New England. (Ph.D. Thesis) Providence: Brown University, 1996.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78.C7 M36 1996

Means, Carroll Alton, "Mohegan-Pequot Relationships, as Indicated by the Events Leading to the Pequot Massacre of 1637 and Subsequent Claims in the Mohegan Land Controversy." Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Connecticut, n. 21, December 1947, pp.26-34.

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Michelson, Truman. "The Linguistic Classification of Pequot-Mohegan." American Anthropologist 26 1924: 295.

MICROFORM: Microfilm

Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority. Under the Mohegan Sun: A Celebration of Cuisine and Culture. Uncasville, CT: Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, 2005.

READING ROOM: TX 715 .U49 2005

Morgan, Lewis Henry. "Mohegan." Ancient Society. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1910: 173-4.

STACKS: JC 21 .M84 1910

Murray, David. "Christian Indians: Samson Occom and William Apes." Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Text. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991: 49-64.

STACKS: PM 218 .M8 1990

National Archives and Records Administration. Indian Reserve Files: 1840 List of Brothertown Indians in Wisconsin and Correspondence File. Record Group 049: Land Management. Photocopy, 27 pages.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Native American Television Project. Indians of Connecticut. Springfield, MA: WGBY TV, 1979. (Video)

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 78 .C7 I53 1979z

Native American Television Project. Indians of Southern New England. Springfield, MA: WGBY TV, 1979. (Video)

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 78 .N5 I53 1979z

Nielsen, Donald M. "The Mashpee Indian Revolt of 1833." New England Quarterly 58 1985: 400-20.

MICROFORM: Microfilm

Ni ya yo.(Periodical) Uncasville, CT: Mohegan Tribe 1997-.

STACKS: Serials

Oberg, Michael Leroy. Uncas: First of the Mohegans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .M83 U536 2003

Occom, Samson & Joanna Brooks, ed. The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .M83 O23 2006

Occum, Samson. "An Account of the Montauk Indians, on Long Island." Collections of the Massachussets Historical Society Series I Vol. X 1809: 106-10.

READING ROOM: F 61 .M41

________ 1. "A Short Narrative of My Life." Native American Autobiography: An Anthropology. WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994: 105-113.

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Ottery, Will. A Man Called Sampson. Camden, ME: Penobscot Press, 1989.

READING ROOM: Pequot CS 71 .S189 1989

Pasquaretta, Paul. Gambling and Survival in Native North America. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 98 .G18 P37 2003

Peale, Arthur L. Memorials and Pilgramages in the Mohegan Country. Norwich, CT: The Bulletin Co., 1930.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .M83 P35 1930

________. Uncas and the Mohegan-Pequot. Boston: Meadow Publishing Co., 1939.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .M83 P43 1939

Peyer, Bernd C. "Samson Occum: Mohegan Missionary and Writer of the 18th Century." American Indian Quarterly 6/3-4, Fall/Winter 1982: 208-17.

STACKS: Serials

________. "Samson Occom and the Vision of a New England Christian Indian Polity." The Tutor'd Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997: 54-116.

READING ROOM: Pequot PS 153 .I52 P49 1997

Philips, David E. "Uncas." Legendary Connecticut : Traditional Tales from the Nutmeg State. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1992: 98-101.

READING ROOM: Local History GR 110 .C8 P48 1992

Polhemus, A. V. Mohegan Indian Maps of Montville, Connecticut: A Commentary, Index, and Handy Guide Relating to the Mohegan Tribal Lands in Montville, Connecticut. New London, CT: Nutmeg Publishers, 1992.

READING ROOM: Local History F 104 .M8 P65 1992

Prince, J. Dyneley and Frank G. Speck 2. "Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language," American Anthropologist, v. 6, 1904, pp. 18-45.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Richardson, Leon B. An Indian Preacher in England. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Publications, 1933.

READING ROOM: Pequot LD 1438.3 .R3 1933

Rollins, Joan H. Hidden Minorities: The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Life. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1981.

READING ROOM: Local History F 15 .A1 H5 1981

St. Jean, Wendy B. From Protector to Real Estate Agent: The Mohegans & Their Guardians. Paper Presented at the American Society of Ethnohistory Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan, November 3, 1995.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Salwen, Bert. "European Trade Goods and the Chronology of the Fort Shantok Site." Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Connecticut No. 34 June 1966: 5-38.

STACKS: Serials

________. "A Tentative ‘In Situ’ Solution to the Mohegan-Pequot Problem." The Connecticut Valley Indian: An Introduction to Their Archaeology and History. Springfield, MA: Springfield Museum of Science, 1969: 81-8.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

Simmons, William Scranton. "Frank Speck and "The Old Mohegan Stone Cutter."" Ethnohistory 32 1985: 155-63.

STACKS: Serials

Smith, De Cost. Martyrs of the Oblong and Little Nine. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1948.

READING ROOM: E 99 .M83 S57 1948

Speck, Frank. "Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: a Mohegan-Pequot Diary." In Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1928.

READING ROOM: E 51 .S65 1925-26

_____ 4. "A Modern Mohegan-Pequot Text," American Anthropologist, v. 6, 1904, pp. 496-476.

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_____and Fidelia Fielding 2. "A Mohegan Pequot Witchcraft Tale," Journal of American Folklore, v. 16, 1903, pp. 104-106.

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_____. "Mohegan Indian Beadwork on Birch-bark." Indian Notes 5 1928: 295-8.

READING ROOM: E 51 .I536 1928

_____ 6. "Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary", Bureau of American Ethnology 43rd Annual Report, 1925-1926, Washington, D.C., pp.201-287.

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_____ 5. "Notes on the Mohegan and Niantic Indians", Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, n.3, 1909, pp.183-210.

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_____ 8. "A Pequot-Mohegan Witchcraft Tale." Journal of American Folklore Vol. 16 1903: 104-7.

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_____ 10. "Some Mohegan-Pequot Legends", Journal of American Folklore, v.17, pp.183-84, 1904.

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_____ Speck Papers and Photograph Collection. (17 Reels)

MICROFORM: Microfilm

Speck, Frank Gouldsmith & Butler, Eva L. Eastern Algonkian Block-stamp Decoration: a New World Original or an Acculturated Art, with an addendum, Some early Indian basket makers of southern New England.

Trenton, NJ: Archeological Society of New Jersey, 1947.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .A35 S74 1947

Spiess, Mathias. The Indians of Connecticut. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933.

READING ROOM: Local History F 91 .S65 1933 no.19

St. Jean, Wendy B. “Inventing Guardianship: The Mohegan Indians and Their "Protectors." New England Quarterly 1999 72(3): 362-387.

STACKS: Serials

Stone, Gaynell, ed. History and Archaeology of the Montauk. Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeological Association; Nassau County Archaeological Committee, 1993.

STACKS: E 99 .M88 H57 1993

________ & Bonvillain, Nancy, eds. Languages and Lore of the Long Island Indians. Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeological Association; Lexington, MA: Ginn Custom Pub., 1980.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N7 L33 1980

Szasz, Margaret Connell 1." 'Poor Richard' Meets the Native American: Schooling for Young Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut." Pacific Historical Review (1980): 215-235.

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___. "Samson Occum: Mohegan as Spiritual Intermediary." Between Indian and White Worlds: the Cultural Broker. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

STACKS: E 91 .B48 1994

Tantaquidgeon, Gladys. Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians. Anthropological Series ; no. 3. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1977.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .D2 T2 1977

_____ "Mohegan Medicinal Practices, Weather Lore and Superstitions." Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports No. 43. Washington, DC: GPO, 1926: 264-79.

READING ROOM: E 51 .S65 1925-26

_____ 1. "Notes on Mohegan-Pequot Basketry Designs." Indians at Work 2 1935: 43-5.

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_____ & Fawcett, Jayne. "Symbolic Motifs on Painted Baskets of the Mohegan-Pequot." Rooted Like the Ash Trees: New England Indians and the Land. Naugatuck, CT: Eagle Wing Press, 1987: 50-1.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N5 R66 1987

_____ & Fawcett, Jayne. "Symbolic Motifs and Painted Baskets of the Mohegan-Pequot." A Key into the Language of Woodsplint Baskets. New Haven: Eastern Press for the American Indian Archaeological Institute, 1987: ?.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N5 K49 1987

Trumbull, Benjamin. A Complete History of Connecticut. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

READING ROOM/STACKS: Local History/Pequot F 97 .T8 1972

Voight, Virginia Frances. Mohegan Chief : the Story of Harold Tantaquidgeon. Mohegan Press, 1983, 1965.

READING ROOM: Local History E 90 .T36 V65 1983

Weinstein, Laurie Lee. "Samson Occom: a Charismatic Eighteenth-Century Mohegan Leader." In Enduring Traditions : the Native Peoples of New England. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994: 91-102.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N5 E47 1994

Weise, Arthur James. History of the City of Troy from the Expulsion of the Mohegan Indians to the Present Centennial Year of the Independence of the United States of America, 1876. Troy, NY: W.H. Young, 1876.

MICROFORM: G&LH LH 4380

Wick, Steve. "Fast Forward: The Pequots Comeback Pays Off Big." Newsday Nov. 11, 1997: A12.

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________. "Long Island: Our Story: Chapter 3: the Colonists: An English Builder Fights Indians at a Connecticut Fort, then Turns his Eyes to Long Island." Newsday Nov. 11, 1997: A12.

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________. "Long Island: Our Story: Gods of the Indians: Old Dutch Writings Relate some of what Original Long Islanders Believed of Life and the Afterlife." Newsday Oct. 16, 1997: A19.

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________. "Long Island: Our Story: A Time to Live, A Time to Die: From Birth to Death, the Indians of Long Island Marked the Passing Stages of Life." Newsday Oct. 17, 1997: A20.

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________. "Legacy: Almost in the Ivy League." Newsday Dec. 1, 1997: A17.

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________. "Legacy: Paul Cuffe's Grave." Newsday Oct. 16, 1997: A19.

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________. "Long Island: Our Story: Preaching to the Indians: Christian Missionary

set out to Convert Algonquians in the 1600s and 1700s." Newsday Dec. 1, 1997: A17.

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Wood, George A. "The Mohegan Indians East and West." Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association 10, 1920-1923: 440-53.

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Young, William R. The Connecticut Valley Indian; an Introduction to their Archaeology and History. Springfield, MA: Springfield Museum of Science,1969.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .C7 Y59 1969

Zawodniak, Brian. Connecticut in King Philip's War. Master's Thesis. Hartford, CT: Trinity College, 1993.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 83 .67 .Z39 1993

Zobel, Melissa Tantaquidgeon. Medicine Trail: The Life and Lessons of Gladys Tantaquidgeon.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .M83 T364 2000

Revised January, 2008 by the staff of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Information Resources Department-SAN