Acknowledgements
This piece is based on ethnographic and archival research in the Northeast and abroad from 2005 to the present, and on a specific encounter at the border in July 2009. I am grateful to the Native and non-Native communities in which I have traveled and listened. The Writing History Colloquium at Yale University has long supported creative historical writing, and Adam Arenson, Paul Shin, Barry Muchnick, Isaiah Wilner, John Demos, Beverly Gage, David Blight, Aaron Sachs, and Daegan Miller have been especially motivating proponents of creative history. John Mack Faragher, Ned Blackhawk, Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Jay Winter, Lisa Brooks, George Miles, Coll Thrush, Patricia Rubertone, Lawrence Buell, and others in New England and beyond have given thoughtful critiques of this project.
Notes
1. Charland 1964; Calloway 1990; Day 1998.
2. Cronon 1983.
3. Calloway 1990; Haefeli and Sweeney 1997; Brooks 2008.
4. Schultz and Tougias 1999; Bruchac 2007; O'Brien 2010.
5. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1884, 11, 30.
6. Handsman 2008; Rubertone 2008.
7. Savageau 1995, 17.
8. Thoreau 1972; Simmons 1986; Nicolar 2007; Brooks 2008; Hardy 2009; Brooks and Brooks 2010.