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DV-356.pdf
Fred V. Brown (Niantic/Narragansett) was a frequent contributor to The Narragansett Dawn, which Red Wing published and edited. This piece appeared in the June 1935 issue of the magazine.

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Peter Mitchell ( b. 1929) was a World War II veteran from Perry, Maine. He wrote frequently for the tribal newsletters, contributing pieces like this 1966 letter. Mitchell was murdered in 1978; as with several other homicides of Maine Native people…

DV-349.pdf
Avant has had a long career as a columnist for area newspapers. This article survives in her personal collections as a clipping; it may have appeared in The Mashpee Enterprise, to which she was a frequent contributor. The year is unknown. The article…

DV-355.pdf
Lone Wolf (Lawrence W. Wilcox) was a frequent contributor to The Narragansett Dawn, which Red Wing edited and published between 1935 and 1936. This piece comes from Red Wing's files for the magazine; it seems not to have been published

DV-363.pdf
At her home in Oakland, RI, Princess Red Wing offered day camps for children as well as a gathering space for local Native people. The 1937 booklet Rhode Island: A Guide to the Smallest State reported that Camp Ki-Yi was "where local Indians spend…

DV-267.pdf
“In 1789 Mashpee women Amy Simon and Mary Sunkoson complained to the overseers that they were being denied necessities that were supposed to be supplied through their common fund.” A year prior, the Mashpee had lost their independence and in turn…

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Katherine Garret’s “Dying Warning” would appear at first glance to be a testament to her life and her conversion to Christianity, though closer examination raises many questions. Garret was a Pequot Indian servant in the home of Reverend William…

DV-357.pdf
Transcription:

Fellow – Native Americans ——

In numbers there is force, for good or evil. Together we stand, divided we fall. The Native American has fell to his present state because of lack of unity, ambition & education.

So…

DV-353.pdf
In this letter, Little Wolf (writing from Roxbury, MA) wishes Red Wing a happy Thanksgiving and consoles her on the death of White Oak. He praises her museum and also references the Dovecrest Restaurant, on the same premises.
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