Author – Roger Williams
ISBN-13: 978-0975960615
Written by Roger Williams, radical reformer from Rhode Island, is a study of seventeenth century Narragansetts and Wampanoags, Algonquin speaking people whose ancestors had occupied the land surrounding Narragansett Bay for thousands of years before the English arrived. The book has been long been praised for its many virtues. Williams, himself, described the book as an “implicit dialogue”. One detects the meaning of these words in the focus on more universal questions, such as ethics, morality and human character and dignity, while recording the most mundane details of ordinary words and customs of everyday life. The book provides an invaluable glimpse of pre-contact Native Americans, as well as a true key to unlock the secrets of the many forms, meanings and nuances of a forgotten age.
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