Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement

Exploring communities in various forms:  Southern New England Native communities and the way they change with the development of white European settlements among them. Also, exploring why and how these Native people moved outside their reservation lands and what that movement did to their new and former communities.

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Memorial of Adam

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Request of a Quinnipiac man living at Farmington to sell tribal land at East Haven
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Memorial of the Proprietors of Wangunk Land in Middletown

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Request by many of the Wangunk to sell their land at Middletown
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Connecticut General Assembly Resolve on the Memorial of the Tunxis (1774)

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
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Memorial of Elijah Wampey, Solomon Mossuck, Samuel Adams and the Rest of the Tunxis

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
With a promise of land from the Six Nations at Oneida, Tunxis leaders request permission to sell their Farmington property and a committee to oversee the process.
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Connecticut General Assembly Resolve Appointing a Committee to Dispose of Property

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Connecticut legislature's resolve permitting the sale of John Adams' property.
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Memorial of the Tunxis Requesting the Sale of Their Lands

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
With a number of Tunxis wanting to remove to Oneida, a request by Tunxis community members to have their common lands be individually determined.
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Memorial of Connecticut Indians at West Stockbridge

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
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Letter from Stephen West to Nathan Strong

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
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Remembrances of John Hubbard and Caleb Gardiner and the Quinnipiac and Narragansett Indian Populations

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
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Petition of John Eliot to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Pawtucket, Nipmuc
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A request that the exchange of land between Chelmsford and the Indian town of Pawtucket be confirmed and that Natick, Hassanamisco, Nashoba, and Okommakamesit be laid out and protected from alienation