Living with whales : documents and oral histories of Native New England whaling history / edited by Nancy Shoemaker.
"Native Americans along the coasts of southern New England and Long Island have had close ties to whales for thousands of years. They made a living from the sea and saw in the world's largest beings special power and meaning. After English settlement in the early seventeenth century, the r...
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| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Native Americans of the Northeast.
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Table of Contents:
- A world of whales
- Whaling from the shore to the deep sea
- Around the world in the nineteenth century
- Whaling legacies
- A whaling family in New England and New Zealand
- Wampanoag oral histories
- Shinnecock oral histories
- Afterword: Researching Native whaling history
- Appendix: Native whalemen's logbooks and journals.