Braccio, N: Creating New England, Defending the Northeast Contested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds, 1500-1700

"Creating New England, Defending the Northeast is exceedingly well-researched, and the nuance is brought in through the use of multiple case studies that build up the complicated, cooperative, and conflicting moments that contribute to the ways in which English and Algonquian people identified themselves both in relationship to the lands around them and to one another." - Marie Balsley Taylor, author of Indigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England

"This innovative and impressive new book, a welcome addition to the understanding of spatial culture of Indigenous New England, advances its arguments using rare primary sources, especially map manuscripts that include characteristics of Algonquian views of their homeland. This is not a story of decline, but how the Massachusetts, Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and neighboring tribes continued to make southern New England home, despite the overwhelming odds against them. Braccio shows how Native people strove to protect their rights to the land in a changing world." - Micah Pawling, author of Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat