The Pequots in Southern New England: The Rise and Fall of an American Indian Nation. This item is unavailable.The Pequots in Southern New England: The Rise and Fall of an American Indian Nation

Before their massacre by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637, the Pequots were pre-eminent in southern New England. Their location on the eastern Connecticut shore made them important producers of the wampum required to trade for furs from the Iroquois. They were also the only Connecticut Indians to oppose the land-hungry English. For those reasons, they became the first victims of white genocide in colonial America. Despite the Pequot War of 1637, and the greed and neglect of their white neighbours and "overseers", the Pequots endured in their ancestral homeland. In 1983 they achieved federal recognition. In 1987 they commemorated the 350th anniversary of the Pequot War by organizing the Mashantucket Pequot Historical Conference, at which distinguished scholars presented the articles assembled in this volume.