Educational Resource List

First Peoples of Rhode Island Rhode Tour:

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Dawnland Voices: Indigenous Writings from New England, edited by Siobhan Senier with 11 tribal editors and published in 2014 by the University of Nebraska Press. Both the anthology and this website showcase the wide variety of literature produced by…

Dawnland Voices: Indigenous Writings from New England, edited by Siobhan Senier with 11 tribal editors and published in 2014 by the University of Nebraska Press. Both the anthology and this website showcase the wide variety of literature produced by Native people from this region. Tribal archives and contemporary authors are contributing individual items from their collections: letters, political petitions, stories, and photographs.

Native Voices, PBS Series Native America

(in partnership with Tomaquag Museum created these three short films)

Free Tomaquag and Other Curriculum

Places, Memories, Stories, & Dreams: The Gifts of Inspiration Curriculum Guide

Indigenous Garden at KettlePond Visitor’s Center Curriculum

This Land is Home: A Seasonal Round in Native New England, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Created by Leah Hopkins (Narragansett)

Nutrition/Food:

Video: Hope’s Harvest Succotash Talk & Demonstration: Click Here

Suggested Reading for Vetting Native Literature:

Other Suggested Reading:

  • A History of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, Keepers of the Bay byRobert Geake

  • The Narragansett by William Simmons

  • The Narragansett by Ethel Boissevain

  • Dawnland Voices, An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England edited by Soibhan Senier

  • The Tomaquag Edition of the Key Into the Language of America, Edited by Dawn Dove, Sandra Robinson, Lorén Spears, Dorothy Herman Papp, Kathleen Bragdon

  • Through Our Eyes, An Indigenous View of Mashapaug Pond Edited by Dawn Dove & Holly Ewald

  • Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public School by Leilani Sabzalian

  • Our Beloved Kin, A New History of King Phillip’s War byLisa Brooks

  • Thanksgiving, a Native Perspective: oyate.org

  • Many Thanksgivings: Teaching Thanksgiving - (Including the Wampanoag Perspective) published through the Boston Children’s Museum

  • Keepers of the Earth by Michael J. Caduto & Joseph Bruchac

Narragansett Book List:

  • The Invasion of America by Francis Jennings

  • The Narragansett People by Ethel Boissevain

  • A History of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island by Robert A. Geake

  • Native People of Southern New England 1500 - 1650 by Kathleen J. Bragdon

  • Native People of Southern New England 1650 - 1775 by Kathleen J. Bragdon

  • The Narragansett by William S. Simmons

  • Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984 by William S. Simmons

  • Native American Archaeology in Rhode Island published by the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission

  • Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon

  • Strawberry Thanksgiving by Paulla Dove Jennings, Illustrated by Ramona Peters

  • Through Our Eyes, An Indigenous View of Mashapaug Pond edited by Dawn Dove and Holly Ewald

  • Dawnland Voices: Indigenous Writings from New England, edited by Siobhan Senier with 11 tribal editors and published in 2014 by the University of Nebraska Press.

  • From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution by Robert A Geake with Lorén M. Spears

  • A Key Into The Language Of America The Tomaquag Museum Edition by Roger Williams and Lorén M. Spears, edited by Dawn Dove, Sandra Robinson, Lorén Spears, Dorothy Herman Papp, and Kathleen J. Bragdon, published by Westholm

Archival Documents

*funded by RI Council on the Humanities

**funded by Native Arts at NEFA

*** funded by NMAI Visual and Expressive Arts Program