Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World

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213 Index accommodation, 6, 190. See also resistance acculturation, 9, 14–16, 24 agency, 21, 28–29, 193; native agency and limitations of, 10, 13, 17–18, 193; of objects, 11, 194 Algonquian, 5, 68; cosmology, 16; dialects , 65, 84, 122; peoples, 77; religious and curing rituals, 16, 119 allotment, 5, 183, 185 American Revolution, 2, 36, 41, 42, 46, 88, 89 Andler, Caroline, 50, 125, 127, 165 archaeology: applied, 20; of culture contact and colonialism, 14–18, 189, 193; indigenous, 7, 18–19, 181, 189; postcolonial, 18–21, 189, 194; public, 20 Ashbow, Samuel, 38 Barth, Fredrik, 24–27, 54, 59, 182 Barthes, Roland, 16, 18, 23, 190 Beaudry, Mary, 56 Bourdieu, Pierre, 21–22 Bragdon, Kathleen, 46, 65 Brainerd, Reverend David, 33 Brighton Cemetery, 128, 157 Brotherton, New Jersey, 33 Brothertown Archaeology Project, 10, 11, 20–21, 31, 50–52, 180, 189–92 Brothertown Burial Ground. See Niles Occom Cemetery Brothertown Indian Nation, 2, 5, 7, 20– 21, 46, 49–52, 165, 180–82, 184, 189–92; trip back East, 49, 50 Brothertown Indians: ancestral communities of, 3, 36–40; Brothertown Homecoming, 49; dispersal of, 5–6, 47–49, 128; etymology, 56–65; factions within, 42–43, 44, 112–13, 158–59; federal acknowledgement case, 180–81, 191–92 Brothertown, New York, 41–45. See Chapters 5 and 7 Brothertown Superintendents, 43–44, 58, 115, 164 Brothertown, Wisconsin, 45–49. See Chapters 6 and 7 Brown-Perez, Kathleen, 180–81, 191 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 5, 46, 180 Burr’s Hill Site, 84 Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 34 Cauntantowwit, 77–78, 114 Certeau, Michel de, 21, 163, 184 Charles, M. V., 147 Charlestown, Rhode Island, 36, 88, 89, 90, 92, 109, 120–21, 152 Christian Indians, 12–14, 35, 41, 72, 138 Civil War, 46 coffins, 74, 76, 85, 115–16, 187 collaborative archaeology. See archaeology colonialism: in New England, 3–6; and plurality, 8; and politics, 113, 180, 188, 194 Commuck, Thomas, 30–32, 40, 50, 151, 169, 171 Connecticut Board of Correspondents, 34 index 214 Connecticut Colony, 1, 12, 33–34, 37 Connecticut General Assembly, 39 corn, 45, 120, 122 Cottrell, Courtney, 14 Coyhis, William, 138 creolization, 27 Crosby, Constance, 16, 185 culture, 6–7; cultural ambiguity, 8–9, 65–67, 72, 183 Daniel, E. Valentine, 23 Dartmouth College, 1, 34 Dean, Thomas, 44 Deansboro Cemetery, 87–88, 90, 92, 106–8, 110, 113 Deansboro, New York, 44, 57, 87–88, 90, 92, 106, 171 death of the author, 16, 18, 23, 190 decolonization, 7, 9, 13–14, 18–19, 29, 181, 189–92, 194 decorative motifs on gravestones, 101–2, 139–41, 146–47 Deetz, James, 101–2 descendant communities, 3, 7, 10, 21, 29, 153, 173, 181 Dethlefsen, Edwin, 101–2 Dick Cemetery, New York, 89–90, 91, 105–9, 110, 112–13. See also Kindness Cemetery Dick Cemetery, Wisconsin, 120–23, 126, 150–53, 157 Dick Family: Asa, 87, 89, 110, 116; Cynthia , 126; Francis, 137; Hannah, 120, 121, 123, 126, 137, 157; Harriet , 137; Isaac, 90, 110; John, 47, 101; Sarah, 125; Thomas, 44, 126; Wealthy, 48; William, 116, 121 Dick Family Cemetery. See Skeesuck Cemetery Dicksville, 89 Dugaway Cemetery, 87, 92, 108, 109, 112 Earl of Dartmouth, 34 Eastern Pequot: people, 91, 111, 113, 153, 154, 166–75; Reservation, 37, 125 Eeyawquittoowauconnuck, 53, 56, 71. See also Brothertown Indians Elyard Cemetery, 126–27, 150, 152, 157 ethnicity: instrumentalist approach to, 26, 186; primordialist approach to, 26, 186. See also identity ethnonyms, 27, 100, 117, 118, 179, 186, 188, 190. See Chapter 4 Euro-Americans, grave markers of, 85, 86, 87, 90, 91, 101–2, 115, 119, 182, 184, 192. See Chapter 6 Farmington, Connecticut, 12, 35, 50 Farmington Reservation, 39, 43, 112 federal acknowledgment, 5, 49, 180–81, 184, 190, 191–92 fictive kinship terms, 65–67, 72, 186 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 5, 47, 49, 51, 128, 129, 130, 173, 174 Forbes, Harriette, 98 forgetting, 137 Fortes, Meyer, 15 Foster, George, 15 Foucault, Michel, 18, 24, 28 Fowler Cemetery, 51, 87, 91–92, 106–9, 111, 112, 167 Fowler Family: Benjamin Garrett, 44; David, 33, 35, 38, 40–41, 53, 91– 92, 99, 107, 111, 125, 136, 167; Hannah, 99, 111; Harriet, 110, 126; Jacob, 111; Mary, 33, 186; Phebe, 125, 136; Symian, 193 Giddens, Anthony, 21, 163 Gosden, Chris, 185, 194 grave orientation, 80–83, 85, 92, 103–6, 148–52, 161 Great Awakening, 4, 84 index 215...