Frederick Matthew Wiseman
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©2000
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[My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the Abenaki community. The second strand is our history and that of our relatives, written down by European, Native American, and Euroamerican observers. The third strand is what our Mother the Earth has revealed to us through the studies and writings of those who delve in her, the archaeologists and paleoecologists. The fourth strand is my own family...
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Pub. Date
c2009
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At Lake Between examines the July 1609 expedition of explorer Samuel de Champlain to the lake that now bears his name, focusing on Indigenous spiritual, cultural, and military customs. Professor Wiseman gives us an alternative view of the first European entrance into what is now Vermont. Through primary sources, interpretive text and color illustrations, At Lake Between looks at this historic encounter from a native perspective, focused not on Champlain,...
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c2010
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A comprehensive review of the unexpectedly elegant culture of the people who greeted Champlain and other explorers along the St. Lawrence River. The early seventeenth century Wabanakis and their neighbors were socially and technologically sophisticated communities bound together, both politically and economically, by a great alliance with their neighbors. Heretofore unpublished graphics and artifacts complement the text.