Table of Contents
List of Maps ix
A Note on the Maps xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Prologue: Caskoak, the Place of Peace 17
Part I The Education Of Weetamoo And James Printer: Exchange, Diplomacy, Dispossession
1 Namumpum, "Our Beloved Kinswoman," Saunkskwa of Pocasset: Bonds, Acts, Deeds 27
2 The Harvard Indian College Scholars and the Algonquian Origins of American Literature 72
Interlude: Nashaway: Nipmuc Country, 1643-1674 107
Part II No Single Origin Story: Multiple Views On The Emergence Of War
3 The Queen's Right and the Quaker's Relation 115
4 Here Comes the Storm 140
5 The Printer's Revolt: A Narrative of the Captivity of James the Printer 169
Part III Colonial Containment And Networks Of Kinship: Expanding The Map Of Captivity, Resistance, And Alliance
6 The Roads Leading North: September 1675-January 1676 203
Interlude: "My Children Are Here and I Will Stay": Menimesit, January 1676 246
7 The Captive's Lament: Reinterpreting Rowlandson's Narrative 253
Part IV The Place Of Peace And The Ends Of War
8 Unbinding the Ends of War 301
9 The Northern Front: Beyond Replacement Narratives 328
Notes 347
Index 425