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The Narragansett Dawn

<em>The Narragansett Dawn </em>(1935-36)

The first tribal periodical in New England may well have been The Narragansett Dawn, published between 1935 and 1936 by an activist known as Princess Red Wing. Though it ran for less than two years, this magazine--produced during the heady days of the "Indian New Deal" issuing from Washington, D.C.--is an important piece of literary history. It included essays calling for tribal unity and reorganization; poetry and traditional stories; language lessons; and letters from its many readers, including Eleanor Roosevelt.  

The University of Rhode Island has made a full run of The Narragansett Dawn available on its library's website.  For more on Princess Red Wing, see our cluster of contributions from the Tomaquag Museum, which she helped found.

 

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This site is a companion to Dawnland Voices: Indigenous Writings from New England, edited by Siobhan Senier with 11 tribal editors and published in 2014 by the University of Nebraska Press.

Both the anthology and this website showcase the wide variety of literature produced by Native people from this region.

Tribal archives and contemporary authors are contributing individual items from their collections: letters, political petitions, stories, and photographs. You can explore these items on a map of the area, browse them according to the tribal nations represented here, or visit some of our exhibits.  You can read new writing in our online magazine, Dawnland Voices 2.0.

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