Query From Mary Rodd Furbee swpub@access.mountain.net Jan 2000
I'm trying to determine if the Wampanoag people of southern New England (Algonquin) were a matrilineal society (in 17th century, before King Phillips' war wiped most out). I've read conflicting information...Thanks much.
Eliot, John _Indian Dialogues_
Heidenreich, Conrad _Huronia_(Toronto, 1971)
Galloway, Colin G. _Dawnland Encounters_(U Press of New England, 1991).
White, Richard _The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and the Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815_ (Cambridge U Press, 1991).
Contact the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in Connecticut