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We the People Called Quinnipiac
by Iron Thunderhorse - Thunder Clan Grand Sachem
Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1 — Roots of the Algonquian Family Tree
- Links to the Red Paint Maritime Traditions
- Prophecies and Protocols
- Seven Prophets - Seven Fires
- The Great Migrations
- Genetic, Linguistic & Cultural Connections
- Icons of Identity
- CHAPTER 2 — Journey to the Long Water Place
- Ancestors & Ancestry
- Ice Age Ancestors (The Paleo-Indians, 18,000 - 8,000 years BP)
- Stone Age Ancestors (The Archaic Indians, 7,000 - 3,000 years BP)
- Watercraft & Seafaring
- Iron Age Ancestors (The Woodland Indians, 3,000 - 1,000 years BP)
- Algonquian Plantations
- Scholarly Collaboration
- CHAPTER 3 — Confederations Meet Corporations
- The Dutch East India Company
- Population Estimates & Miscalculations
- The English Corporation
- Reviewing the Facts
- Boundary Markers
- Treaty Relationships
- Ownership Vs. Stewardship
- CHAPTER 4 — Political Anatomy of Our Sachemdoms
- Status and Standing
- Sachemships & Sachemdoms
- Defenders of the Lineages & Ecosystems
- Trade and Tribute
- The Grand Sachemdoms
- The Ancient Right To Leadership
- Anatomy of our Confederacy
- CHAPTER 5 — Refugee Camps in the Dawnland
- The Puritan Agenda
- Religious Conversion to Red Puritans
- The Quinnipiac Nation Splits
- The Last 30 Acre Encroachment
- The Stockbridge Migrations
- CHAPTER 6 — Restoration and Revitalization
- The Esopus and Stockbridge War-Captain
- Cockenoe of Long Island
- Archaeological Confirmation of Rockshelter Refugium
- The Name Game
- Connecticut’s Indian Policy
- ACQTC Today
- ACQTC Goals & Intentions
- CHAPTER 7 — Time and Traditions
- Counting Time by Days and Seasons
- Tales of the Transformers
- The Stone Giants
- Thunder Clan/Society/Cult
- Tales of the Quinnipiac Stone Giants
- Epilogue
- REFERENCES
- MAPS, DIAGRAMS, ILLUSTRATIONS THE WAY WE WERE
- SCRAPBOOK THE WAY WE ARE
- PHOTO ALBUM THE WAY WE ARE