Reading the English: Uncas and the Making of Native Connecticut
By Eleanor M. Crandall
Length4h 29m
About this audiobook
On the tidal river the English would name the Thames, corn went into the ground when the oak leaves were the size of a squirrel's ear, three or four kernels to a hill with a fish buried beneath. Men built weirs of lashed saplings across the channel and waited for the alewives and the sturgeon. The people along that river were Pequot and Mohegan, branches of one trunk, married into the same families and speaking one language in different accents, and around 1600 the split between them was still taking shape.
Uncas did much to shape it. A sachem with a claim to Pequot leadership, he broke away, made himself the ally of the English newcomers, and in 1637 brought his warriors into the Pequot War on the English side, including the attack on the fort at Mystic where hundreds of Pequot men, women and children died. For more than four decades after that he played the colonies against his Native rivals and his rivals against the colonies, and turned a small breakaway band into a people the English could not ignore.
His people's troubles outlived him: succession fights among his sons, a reservation fenced and whittled away, the Mohegan minister Samson Occom raising money in England for an Indian school that his mentor turned into Dartmouth College, the long decades when Connecticut treated the tribe as a remnant, and federal recognition at last in 1994. Whether Uncas saved his people or betrayed his neighbors is an argument New England has never finished.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The River and the Names
2Chapter 2: Uncas and the First Ships
3Chapter 3: The Pequot War and the Fort at Mystic
4Chapter 4: The Alliance and the Long Argument
5Chapter 5: Sachems, Sons, and the Succession Wars
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6Chapter 6: The Reverend Occom and the School
7Chapter 7: The Reservation Fenced
8Chapter 8: Medicine Bundles and the Long Memory
9Chapter 9: Termination, Relocation, and the Fight to be Seen
10Chapter 10: The Casino and the Nation Rebuilt
11Chapter 11: Sovereignty in the Twenty-First Century
12Chapter 12: The River Still Runs
13About the Author
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