Author： Bruchac Margaret
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 1555-8622
Source： Archaeologies, Vol.8, Iss.3, 2012-12, pp. : 293-312
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Abstract
The Indigenous people of New England's middle Connecticut River Valley are often imagined as having been subservient to powerful tribal nations elsewhere. Yet, archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence suggests Pocumtuck independence and autonomy in relations with neighboring Native groups and with Dutch, English, and French colonizers during the seventeenth century. We employ a decolonizing framework, drawing on H.M. Wobst's critique of the preoccupation with dominance and geopolitical “centers to analyze this evidence. By framing artifacts, colonial texts, and cultural interactions as both past
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