A deep presence: 13,000 years of Native American History/ by Robert G. Goodby.

Title:

A deep presence: 13,000 years of Native American History/ by Robert G. Goodby.

Author:

Goodby, Robert G. ,

Call Number:

970.004 G6469

Publication Information:

Portsmouth: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2021.

Physical Description:

138 p.: illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Description:

Almost 13,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a river in what would become Keene, New Hampshire. This begins the remarkable story of Native Americans in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire, part of the traditional homeland of the Abenaki people. Typically neglected or denied by conventional history, the long presence of Native people in southwestern New Hampshire is revealed by archaeological evidence for their deep, enduring connections to the land and the complex social worlds they inhabited. From the Tenant Swamp Site in Keene, with the remains of the oldest known dwellings in New England, to the 4,000-year-old Swanzey Fish Dam still visible in the Ashuelot River, A Deep Presence tells their story in a narrative fashion, drawin on the author's thirty years of fieldwork and presenting compelling evidence form archaeoogy, written history, and the living traditions of today's Abenaki people.

Subjects:

Abenaki Indians. , Archaeology New Hampshire. , Indians of North America New Hampshire.

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Credit Line:

Gift of Robert G. Goodby; December 2022;