Indigenous responses (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Howey. Karen Alexander. Courtney Mills. Adreinne Kovach. Beverly Johnson.

This paper looks at the story of the colonization of New England from the perspective of the Ocean. It was the Ocean, and its marine resources, that first brought Europeans to the Northwest Atlantic and into contact with the region’s indigenous communities in the 16th and 17th centuries. As Europeans expanded their colonial presence on land, they likewise expanded their presence on the sea, increasing commercial fishing in the Northwest Atlantic. During this early colonial period, New England...