Bragdon Kathleen J. Native People of Southern New England, 1500-1650

University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. — 328 p.In this first comprehensive study of American Indians of southern New England from 1500 to 1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon discusses common features and significant differences among the Pawtucket, Massachusett, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, Narragansett, Pokanoket, Niantic, Mohegan, and Pequot Indians. Her complex portrait, which employs both the perspective of European observers and important new evidence from archaeology and linguistics, shows that internally developed customs and values were primary determinants in the development of Native culture.Kathleen J. Bragdon is Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.