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Further Reading 639 below, having completed the same journey, as is their duty. After all, that is what snowflakes do and will continue to do until the end of time. Creating a blank slate for each lonely wanderer to stroll through and tell just one more story, to add its mark to this great planet the Creator made for all of its creatures. A dark black bird lands on the snow. Its feet leave little etchings all over the once-blank surface. I turn to the window to watch him go, both of us unaware where the trail of footprints will lead him. The dark one who flies apart. The bird twitches his head lightly in each direction, then turns and looks up at me curiously. “Achu-ka-yihs,” I whisper. “Uyuqôm.” Dream. (2009) Notes 1. Laura Murray’s note: “Belknap, deacon of his church, had written to Samson Occom on May 4, 1773, requesting that Occom preach in his town, which lacked a settled minister.” 2. Murray’s note: “Occom’s sermon and Johnson’s letter to Moses Paul.” Further Reading mohegan authors Davison, Faith Damon, and Jeffrey Bendremer. “Mohegan Oral Tradition, Archaeology and the Legacy of Uncas.” Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut 70 (2008): 3–14. Print. —. “A World Transformed.” Map supplement to ”Jamestown: The Real Story: How Settlers Destroyed a Native Empire and Changed the Landscape from the Ground Up.” National Geographic May 2007: n. pag. Print. Davison, Faith Damon, and Melissa Fawcett Tantaquidgeon. “Mohegan.” Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement 2002: 218–22. Print. Fawcett, Jayne, and Gladys Tantaquidgeon. “Symbolic Motifs on Painted Baskets of the Mohegan-Pequot.” Key into the Language of Woodsplint Baskets. Washington ct: American Indian Archaeological Institute, 1987. 94–102. Print. Fielding, Stephanie M. Mohegan Language Project. http://www.moheganlanguage .com/. Web. 10 June 2011. —. Seven Cities and Other Journeys. Greenfield ny: Bowman Books, 2014. Print. Johnson, Joseph. To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson 1751– 1776. Ed. Laura J. Murray. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Print. Kimball, Carol. Noank Notes: Newspaper Columns of Mary Virginia Goodman. Groton ct: Groton Public Library, 1990. Print. 640 mohegan Occom, Samson. The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century Native America. Ed. Joanna Brooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Print. Speck, Frank, and Fidelia Fielding. “A Modern Mohegan-Pequot Text.” American Anthropologist 6.4 (1904): 469–76. Print. Tantaquidgeon, Gladys. Folk Medicine of the Delaware & Related Algonkian Indians. Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 2000. Print. Zobel, Melissa Jayne Fawcett. The Lasting of the Mohegans: Part I, the Story of the Wolf People. Uncasville ct: Mohegan Tribe, 1995. Print. —. Medicine Trail: The Life and Lessons of Gladys Tantaquidgeon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. Print. Zobel, Melissa Jayne Fawcett, and Joseph Bruchac. Makiawisug: The Gift of the Little People. Uncasville ct: Little People Publications, 1997. Print. Zobel, Melissa Tantaquidgeon. Fire Hollow. Ward Hill ma: Raven’s Wing Books, 2010. Print. —. Oracles: A Novel. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Print. additional reading Bruchac, Joseph, and Fidelia Fielding. Mundu Wigo. Marvin sd: Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1978. Print. Dyck, Reginald. “The Economic Education of Samson Occom.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 24.3 (Fall 2012): 3–25. Print. LeBlanc, Michael. “Putting on ‘The Helmet of Salvation’ and Wielding ‘the Sword of the Spirit’: Joseph Johnson, Moses Paul, and the Word of God.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 23.3 (Fall 2012): 26–52. Print. Love, William Deloss. Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England. 1899. Syracuse ny: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Print. Oberg, Michael Leroy. Uncas: First of the Mohegans. Ithaca ny: Cornell University Press, 2006. Print. Simmons, William S. “A Pequot-Mohegan Witchcraft Tale.” Journal of American Folklore 16.61 (1903): 11–14. Print. —. Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620–1984. Hanover nh: University Press of New England, 1986. Print. Speck, Frank G. Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary. Washington dc: gpo, 1928. Print. Speck, Frank, and John Dyneley Prince. “Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language.” American Anthropologist 6.1 (1904): 18–45. Print. ...

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