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Page one from a two-page manuscript presenting a vocabulary of the Unquachog Indians from the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society.

This round splint basket bears similarities to Nipmuck and Pequot baskets with its square base and single splint wrapped around the rim.

Artist Statement:"This necklace was inspired by the traditional multi-strand wampum necklaces. The aim of this piece is to create something that would help Eastern Woodlands relatives feel connected to their ancestors. [In] many historic pictures of…

Bethpage is located directly south of Cold Spring Harbor. Since their arrival in 1640, colonists were eager to purchase and own direct title to land on Long Island. Thomas Powell purchased this land from local Indigenous people including Matinecock…

Algonquian women of Sewanhaky are and always have been, leaders in their families and communities. They weighed in and sometimes signed treaties with colonists.

Martine's work gifts us an intense and vibrant visualization of an Indigenous Sewanhaky past, where daily life and ceremony are freely expressed. Martine's painting interrupts a European art history narrative that attempts to side-step or leave out…

Why would prayer and spiritual beliefs be an act of liberation? In 1978, the passage of the American Indian Freedom of Religious Act (Public Law No. 95-341, 92 Stat. 469) permitted Indigenous people to openly practice their spiritual beliefs. At the…