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Living with Whales : Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History by Nancy Shoemaker; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Native Americans along the coasts of southern New England and Long Island have had close ties to whales for thousands of years. They made a living from the sea and saw in the world's largest beings special power and meaning. After English settlement in the early seventeenth century, the region's natural bounty of these creatures drew Natives and colonists alike to develop whale hunting on an industrial scale. By the nineteenth century, New England dominated the world in whaling, and Native Americans contributed substantially to whaleship crews. In Living with Whales, Nancy Shoemaker reconstructs the history of Native whaling in New England through a diversity of primary documents: explorers' descriptions of their "first encounters," indentures, deeds, merchants' accounts, Indian overseer reports, crew lists, memoirs, obituaries, and excerpts from journals kept by Native whalemen on their voyages. These materials span the centuries-long rise and fall of the American whalefishery and give insight into the far-reaching impact of whaling on Native North American communities. One chapter even follows a Pequot Native to New Zealand, where many of his Maori descendants still reside today

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Author

Nancy Shoemaker; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781613763049

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Agriculture