Mashantucket Pequot Research Library: Indian Residential Schools Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Description
Brief list of items held by the library.
Provides information on appearance, location, cultivation, harvesting, which parts of plants used, medicinal properties, and preparation instructions.
Lists names of months in a wide variety of North American Indigenous languages.
Lists English translations of cultural groups' names for: the Milky Way, North Star, Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, Cassiopeia, Pleiades, Corona Borealis, Scorpius, and Aurora Borealis.
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
Originally published in 1921. This version transcribed, curated and with additions. The author was the Indian Agent for the "Blood and Peigan" Indians from 1898 to 1911.