The Patent and the Indians: The Problem of Jurisdiction in Seventeenth-Century New England
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ruth Barnes Moynihan
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 1977, pp. 8-18
Description
Discusses Roger Williams' challenges to Puritans' assertion that they had jurisdiction over both Indigenous peoples and their lands, and uses the conflict between the Narragansett and dissident Rhode Islanders as a case study.