Contents
Illustrations 00
Acknowledgments 00
Introduction 1
Chapter One. The Mohegans 00
Oweneco, "Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians in New
England, 14 July 1703" 00
David Murray, "Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians, 14 July
1703" 00
Joseph Johnson, "Diary, 1773" 00
Laura J. Murray, "Joseph Johnson?s Diary, Farmington, Connecticut, 18 November 1772 to 1
February 1773" 00
"Mohegan Wood-Splint Basket" 00
Stephanie Fitzgerald, "The Cultural Work of a Mohegan Painted Basket" 00
Samson Occom, "Temperance and Morality Sermon" 00
Heather Bouwman, "Samson Occom and the Sermonic Tradition" 00
"Title Pages from Samson Occom?s Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul" 00
Phillip H. Round, "Samson Occom and Native Print Literacy" 00
Chapter Two. The Narragansetts 00
Sarah Pharaoh, "The Case of Sarah Pharaoh" 00
Ann Marie Plane, "The Dreadful Case of Sarah Pharaoh: Finding Native Women?s Voices in an
Eighteenth-Century Infanticide Case" 00
Sarah Simon, "Letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1769" 00
Hilary E. Wyss, "Writing Back to Wheelock: One Young Woman?s Response to Colonial
Christianity" 00
Chapter Three: Natick 00
Samuel Ponampam, "Confession Narrative, 1656" 00
Kristina Bross, "Temptation in the Wilderness: Ponampam?s Confession" 00
"Natick Indian Petition, 1748" 00
Jean O?Brien, "?Our Old and Valluable Liberty?: A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of Their
Fishing Rights, 1748" 00
Chapter Four: The Pequots 00
"Pequot Medicine Bundle" 00
Kevin A. McBride, "Bundles, Bears, and Bibles: Interpreting Seventeenth-Century Native
?Texts?" 00
"The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret" 00
Jodi Schorb, "Seeing Other Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative" 00
Chapter Five: The Wampanoags 00
"Mittark?s Will, 1681/1703" 00
David J. Silverman, "?We Chief Men Say This?: Wampanoag Memory, English Authority, and
the Contest over Mittark?s Will" 00
"The Hannit Family, in Experience Mayhew?s Indian Converts" 00
Laura Arnold Leibman, "Tradition and Innovation in a Colonial Wampanoag Family from
Martha?s Vineyard" 00
Chapter Six: Intertribal Conversations 00
"Pictograph Image on a 1725 Treaty" (Wabanaki) 00
Heidi Bohaker, "Reading Expressions of Identity on a 1725 Peace and Friendship Treaty" 00
"Montaukett Petition, 1788" 00
Joanna Brooks, "?This Indian World?: A Petition/Origin Story from Samson Occom (Mohegan)
and the Montaukett Tribe" 00
Sandra M. Gustafson, Historical Introduction to Hendrick Aupaumut?s Short Narration
Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican/Stockbridge), A Short narration of my last Journey to the
western Contry 00
Sandra M. Gustafson, "Hendrick Aupaumut and the Cultural Middle Ground" 00
Contributors 00
Bibliography 00
Index