Arts & Abstract Ideas

Exploring Native New England through various expressions in the creative, performing, media, and visual arts, as well as in philosophical concepts like, for example, civilized, savageness, fear/anxiety, and fidelity. 

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Transfer from father to son of a half part of four acres of land and a half part of a dwelling house, being the piece of property purchased from Susannah at Pequabuck Meadow
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Transfer of all the land Hatchet Towsey owns on the west side of the meadow (which lies undivided with the rest of the Tunxis proprietors) to his son, John
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Transfer from father to son through a bequest of a dwelling house, household goods, and property on the west side of Farmington Meadow
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Transfer by father to son of fourteen acres of land in the First Tier in the First Society
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Brothertown Indian Nation
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Culture & Society, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Possibly the earliest musical publication by a Native American composer, Indian Melodies (1845) is a collection of 120 Christian shape note hymns written by Thomas Commuck of the Brothertown Indian community.
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Copy of the Treaty of Hartford made for the King Charles II's Commissioners, Colonel Richard Nicholls, George Cartwright, Sir Robert Carr, and Samuel Maverick
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A recommendation of Amos Hull, Matthew Brown, Andrew Chapman, and Thomas P. Wattles, Selectmen of North Stonington, to the County Court of New London for the appointment of Ezra Hewitt as Overseer to the Eastern Pequot Indians
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A short description of an Indian diplomatic mission and their entertainment in London
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Information regarding the presence of several Indian diplomats, their wives, and colonial assistants in England on their way to London