Indians of Southern Maryland

Indians of Southern Maryland
Author: Rebecca Seib
Publisher: Maryland Historical Society
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780984213573

New from the Maryland Historical Society, the story of Southern Maryland’s Native people. Here at last is the story of Southern Maryland’s Native people, from the end of the Ice Age to the present. Intended for a general audience, it explains how they have been adapting to changing conditions—both climatic and human—for all of that time in a way that is jargon-free and readable. The authors, cultural anthropologists with long experience of modern Indian people, convincingly demonstrate that all through their history, Native people have behaved like rational adults, contrary to the common stereotype of Indians. Moreover, in the very early Contact Period at least, some English settlers respected them accordingly. Unfortunately, although they never went to war against the English, they were driven nearly out of existence. Yet some of them refused to leave, and, adapting yet again to a changing world, their descendants are living successfully in Indian communities today.

Maryland Indians (Paperback)

Maryland Indians (Paperback)
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Gallopade International
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780635022844

One of the most popular misconceptions about American Indians is that they are all the same-one homogenous group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and share the same customs and history. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book gives kids an A-Z look at the Native Americans that shaped their state's history. From tribe to tribe, there are large differences in clothing, housing, life-styles, and cultural practices. Help kids explore Native American history by starting with the Native Americans that might have been in their very own backyard! Some of the activities include crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, and decipher the code.

Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland

Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland
Author: Helen C. Rountree
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813918013

Mixing chronological narrative with a full ecological portrait, anthropologists Helen C. Rountree and Thomas E. Davidson have reconstructed the culture and history of Virginia's and Maryland's Eastern Shore Indians from A.D. 800 until the last tribes disbanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, the reader learns not only the characteristics and traditions of each tribe but also the plants and animals that were native to each ecozone and were essential components of the Indians' habitat and diet. Rountree and Davidson convincingly demonstrate how these geographical and ecological differences translated into cultural differences among the tribes and shaped their everyday lives. Making use of exceptional primary documents, including county records dating as far back as 1632, Rountree and Davidson have produced a thorough and fascinating glimpse of the lives of Eastern Shore Indians that will enlighten general readers and scholars alike.

Wesort-Mulatto-Indians (An Ethnic Tri-Racial Isolate Group) of Port Tobacco and La Plata, Maryland

Wesort-Mulatto-Indians (An Ethnic Tri-Racial Isolate Group) of Port Tobacco and La Plata, Maryland
Author: Miss Utera
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2018-08-29
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1546232834

I?n distinct contrast to “grandma-Bessie”, ??the “Geechee Lady”?, who was born in 1888, on a little South Carolina sea-island among the humble descendants of the Cherokee “Trail of Tears”- survivors, crammed together with the descendants of black-slaves into one little, down-trodden island-community?)?,....... grandmother-Sarah, a “?Wesort-Mulatto-Indian”,...(was born one year after Bessie in 1889, in the somewhat more up-to-date, southern city of La Plata). * * * * * * * * * * * Sarah Proctor came into the world among her people, ?the genteel, colored-elite; ...?an intermediate color-caste, who were the “free-people-of-color” of southeast Port Tobacco & La Plata, Maryland,... known as the proud, self-sufficient, well-educated, softly-spoken, well-mannered, very well-dressed, and always smoothly-coiffured, “good-haired” & ?light-skinned? “Wesorts” • It was during an era when ?RACISM was “KING”;? ?a stark-white, ruthless & headless monarch that ranted, ruled, and raged through America. • However, ironically on the other hand, there were those proponents of ?COLORISM? who were said to be found mostly among “lighter people”, who exhibited social airs which caused them to be perceived by most other “Coloureds” as “privileged” little princes & princesses” ?who,.......somehow ?always seemed, to their darker brothers & sisters (?who misunderstood them), to be loyally-emulating their eminent ruler, that metaphorical raging “KING”! • But, for the most part, they were NOT really as disloyal as they were perceived to be,...but, ?“stuck in the middle”? as they were,...they were ?simply ?a very ?misunderstood? group of very good American citizens.

Maryland and the French and Indian War

Maryland and the French and Indian War
Author: Allan Powell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

Before the start of that war, there were some disputes between the colonies, and one involved Thomas Cresap. Cresap, who later lived at Long Meadow north of Hagerstown before he moved west to Old Town in Allegany County, was running his ferry on the Susquehanna in 1730. He was located a few miles south of the 40th parallel, which was to be the boundary between William Penn's land of Pennsylvania and the Calverts' colony of Maryland. The book is full of maps, of excerpts from letters, of drawings of the main characters and of battle strategies. It details the frontiersmen's struggles with Native Americans and the cruelties each inflicted on the other.

First People

First People
Author: Keith Egloff
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813925486

Incorporating recent events in the Native American community as well as additional information gleaned from publications and public resources, this newly redesigned and updated second edition of First People brings back to the fore this concise and highly readable narrative. Full of stories that represent the full diversity of Virginia's Indians, past and present, this popular book remains the essential introduction to the history of Virginia Indians from the earlier times to the present day.

John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church

John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church
Author: Robert H. Ruby
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806128658

This richly detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church (not to be confused with eastern Shakerism. Students of Native American religion and Christianity will find this a moving story both of assimilation and of the curing that is the Shaker Church’s reason for being. The Indian Shaker movement began in 1882 when the charismatic but dissolute Slocum had a vision after a near-death experience. Later his church was led by his wide, Mary Thompson, and early-day leaders such as Mud Bay Louis and Mud Bay Sam. Today church members continue to combine Native American styles of singing, body movement, and verbal declarations with bell ringing, songs, burning candles, and shaking in a unique curing tradition that is honored outside the church particularly for its success in teaching against the use of alcohol. Intense community support, for both leader and patient, is a focal point in the lives of Shaker Church members. Their tradition has endured despite the important differences in members’ tribal backgrounds and religious viewpoints chronicled in this up-to-date account by veteran scholars Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, the first outsiders to have access to church records.

We're Still Here

We're Still Here
Author: Sandra F. Waugaman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

At last! Virginia Indians provide readers with a candid account of their living history, insight to cultural traditions, and vision for the future. Topics Include: archeological digs; traditional regalia; pow wows; Indian life today; The Virginia Council on Indians; local reservations; Virginia-recognized tribes; museums; other resources including Web sites and educational programs. Book jacket.

Leonard Calvert and the Maryland Adventure

Leonard Calvert and the Maryland Adventure
Author: Ann Jensen
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780764336850

Leonard Calvert was a quiet boy who grew up in England. When he was grown, Leonard went to Newfoundland with his father, George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, and fought French privateers. When his father died, Cecil became the second Lord Baltimore, and led the first colonists to settle in Maryland. Leonard was just twenty-seven-years old when he became Maryland's first governor. He faced fierce Indians, unfriendly Virginia fur traders, and plundering pirates who wanted to chase him out of Maryland and take the colony away from the Calverts. Middle grades-ages 10-13.

The Indians of the Nipmuck Country in Southern New England, 1630-1750

The Indians of the Nipmuck Country in Southern New England, 1630-1750
Author: Dennis A. Connole
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2003-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786450118

The North American Indian group known as the Nipmucks was situated in south-central New England and, during the early years of Puritan colonization, remained on the fringes of the expanding white settlements. It was not until their involvement in King Philip's War (1675-1676) that the Nipmucks were forced to flee their homes, their lands to be redistributed among the settlers. This group, which actually includes four tribes or bands--the Nipmucks, Nashaways, Quabaugs, and Wabaquassets--has been enmeshed in myth and mystery for hundreds of years. This is the first comprehensive history of their way of life and its transformation with the advent of white settlement in New England. Spanning the years between the Nipmucks' first encounters with whites until the final disposal of their lands, this history focuses on Indian-white relations, the position or status of the Nipmucks relative to the other major New England tribes, and their social and political alliances. Settlement patterns, population densities, tribal limits, and land transactions are also analyzed as part of the tribe's historical geography. A bibliography allows for further research on this mysterious and often misunderstood people group.