The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity: Memory Lands King Philip's War

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Preface: memories of corn and quartz: rethinking stories of violence and survivance -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: placemaking and memorializing after the great watershed -- Part I: The way to Deer Island -- Contested passages: coastal and inland homelands. Bastoniak, and internment by the "city upon a hill" -- Protecting the "perfect city": reorganizing native memoryscapes across greater Boston -- Part II: The Narragansett Country -- Habitations by Narragansett Bay: coastal homelands, encounters with Roger Williams, and routes to Great Swamp -- Monumentalizing after "detribalization," the swamp discourse from casinos to Carcieri -- Part III: The Great River -- The gathering place: a trafficked waterway, dawn massacre, and material legacies of the "falls fight" -- Power and persistence along a changing river: industrial transformations, ceremonial landscapes, and contemporary reconciliations -- Part IV: The Red Atlantic -- Algonquian diasporas: indigenous bondages, fugitive geographies, and the edges of Atlantic memories.;"DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European settlers in early America in five specific places that were directly affected by the crisis, spanning the Northeast as well as the Atlantic world. She examines the war's effects on the everyday lives and collective mentalities of the region's diverse Native and Euro-American communities over the course of several centuries, focusing on persistent struggles over land and water, sovereignty, resistance, cultural memory, and intercultural interactions"--Amazon.com. Preface: memories of corn and quartz: rethinking stories of violence and survivance -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: placemaking and memorializing after the great watershed -- Part I: The way to Deer Island -- Contested passages: coastal and inland homelands. Bastoniak, and internment by the "city upon a hill" -- Protecting the "perfect city": reorganizing native memoryscapes across greater Boston -- Part II: The Narragansett Country -- Habitations by Narragansett Bay: coastal homelands, encounters with Roger Williams, and routes to Great Swamp -- Monumentalizing after "detribalization," the swamp discourse from casinos to Carcieri -- Part III: The Great River -- The gathering place: a trafficked waterway, dawn massacre, and material legacies of the "falls fight" -- Power and persistence along a changing river: industrial transformations, ceremonial landscapes, and contemporary reconciliations -- Part IV: The Red Atlantic -- Algonquian diasporas: indigenous bondages, fugitive geographies, and the edges of Atlantic memories.