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Barreiro, Jose. "A Case of Sacred Right: 'The Earth Is Us,'" Northeast Indian Quarterly, 3(2):26-32, 1986.

Feest, Christian. "Nanticoke and Neighboring Tribes," pp. 240-252 in Handbook of the North American Indian, (vol. 15) ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

Ferguson, Alice and Henry G. Ferguson. The Piscataway Indians of Southern Maryland. Accokeek, MD: Alice Ferguson Foundation, 1960.

Harriot, Thomas. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: The Complete 1590 Theodor De Bry Edition. New York: Dover Publications, 1972.

Jennings, Francis. The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1984.

MacLeod, W.C. "Piscataway Royalty: A Study in Stone Age Government and Inheritance Rulings, " Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 16 (1), pp. 301-309, 1926.

Merrel, James H. "Cultural Continuity among the Piscataway Indians of Colonial Maryland," The William and Mary Quarterly, pp 548-570, 36 (4), 1979.

Porter, Frank W. Strategies for Survival: American Indians in the Eastern United States. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Robinson, W. Stitt (ed.) Maryland Treaties, 1632-1775. Frederick, MD: University Press of America, 1987.

Rountree, Helen C. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

_____________. Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

____________. Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Rountree, Helen C. and Thomas E. Davidson. Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Speck, Frank G. The Nanticoke and the Conoy Indians. Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1927.

Tayac, Gabrielle. "So Intermingled With This Earth: A Piscataway Oral History," Northeast Indian Quarterly, pp 4-17, Winter 1988.

_____________. "Stolen Spirits: An Illustrative Case of Indigenous Survival Through Religious Freedom," in American Indian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Contemporary Issues, (ed.) Dane Morrison. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

_____________. "Sovereignty of Body and Nation: Captivity and Resistance of Indigenous Female Adolescents," Shared Visions: A Leadership Journal, Fall 1998.

Weslager, C. A. The Nanticoke Indians, Past and Present. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983.

List compiled by Gabrielle Tayac, Ph.D. (Piscataway)

 

 
 


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