Commonly Referenced

It bugs me when peo­ple ref­er­ence uncom­mon books, authors, or other mate­ri­als as though they’re com­monly known. So here’s a list of ref­er­ences you’ll see pretty reg­u­larly about the blog. Each title links to the entries which ref­er­ence it. I try to keep it updated, but if I missed some­thing, please tell me!

 

Books

• Custer Died for Your Sins · Vine Delo­ria, Jr. (ama­zon)
• Fac­ing East from Indian Coun­try · Daniel K. Richter (ama­zon)
• Ish­mael /​ The Story of B /​ My Ish­mael /​ Beyond Civ­i­liza­tion · Daniel Quinn (ama­zon)
• Mayflower · Nathaniel Philbrick (ama­zon)
• Native Amer­i­can Tes­ti­mony · Peter Nabokov (edited by) (ama­zon)
• Roots of Sur­vival · Joseph Bruchac (ama­zon)
• Sand­man · Neil Gaiman (ama­zon)
• The Self­ish Gene · Richard Dawkins (ama­zon)
• Sex at Dawn: The Pre­his­toric Ori­gins of Human Sex­u­al­ity · Christo­pher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá (ama­zon)
• Wee­t­a­moo: Heart of the Pocas­setts · Pat Smith (my late edi­tor) (ama­zon)

Major Figures

• Mary Row­land­son
• Meta­com (“met-​​a-​​cóhm” · aka King Phillip)
• Ousame­quin (aka Mas­sas­soit circa 1650)
• Wee­t­a­moo (“wee-​​táh-​​moh”)

Historical Events

• Metacom’s War
• Ded­ham Land Grant (1635−36)
• Found­ing of Need­ham (1711)
• Found­ing of West Need­ham (c. 1726)
• Found­ing of Welles­ley (1881)

Contemporary Figures

• Jill Mil­roy