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GtrsRGr8 · 03-31-2016, 07:43 PM

I ran across this ebook a short time ago and felt that it was a must-post . . . . It is from the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Connecticut. The Pequot are a tribe of indigenous people (native Americans, American Indians) in New England.

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, part of the government of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, is a non-profit educational institution that seeks to further knowledge and understanding of the richness and diversity of the indigenous cultures and societies of the United States and Canada.
--from the Mission Statement (http://www.pequotmuseum.org/AboutTheMuseum.aspx).

Elsewhere on its website, the museum notes that it is a "Smithsonian affiliate."

To give you a good idea of the contents of the book, I'll give you the chapter titles:
1 - Creation and Other Stories
2 - Life Thousands of Years Ago
3 - A Look at the Museum's 16th Century Pequot Village
4 - European Arrival and the Aftermath
5 - The Pequot War (1636-1638)
6 - Life on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation: The 17th-19th c. Experience
7 - Pequot Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries
8 - The Natural World
9 - Mashantucket Pequot Tribal History Overview

This is truly a delightful book. It is very well formatted. It has lots of colorful photographs, and maps and other images (they are a little small, but they enlarge very nicely with your browswer's zoom feature). I haven't read enough in it, yet, to vouch for the quality of writing, but everything leads me to believe that it, too, is excellent.

Enjoy.

Title: History and Culture eBook.
Format(s): Pdf.
Author(s): Mashantucket Pequot Museum.
Publisher: Mashantucket Pequot Museum.
Pages: 91.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): N/A.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there: N/A.
Book Description (Amazon):
Comments: I believe this to be a legal free download based upon the fact that it is offered as an implied free download, and a link is provided to it, at http://www.pequotmuseum.org/eBook.aspx.
URL: http://www.pequotmuseum.org/uploaded...ture_ebook.pdf (direct link).

03-31-2016, 07:43 PM	#232
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Beautiful, FREE Pdf Book about the Pequot Indians of New England. I ran across this ebook a short time ago and felt that it was a must-post . . . . It is from the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Connecticut. The Pequot are a tribe of indigenous people (native Americans, American Indians) in New England. The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, part of the government of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, is a non-profit educational institution that seeks to further knowledge and understanding of the richness and diversity of the indigenous cultures and societies of the United States and Canada. --from the Mission Statement (http://www.pequotmuseum.org/AboutTheMuseum.aspx). Elsewhere on its website, the museum notes that it is a "Smithsonian affiliate." To give you a good idea of the contents of the book, I'll give you the chapter titles: 1 - Creation and Other Stories 2 - Life Thousands of Years Ago 3 - A Look at the Museum's 16th Century Pequot Village 4 - European Arrival and the Aftermath 5 - The Pequot War (1636-1638) 6 - Life on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation: The 17th-19th c. Experience 7 - Pequot Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries 8 - The Natural World 9 - Mashantucket Pequot Tribal History Overview This is truly a delightful book. It is very well formatted. It has lots of colorful photographs, and maps and other images (they are a little small, but they enlarge very nicely with your browswer's zoom feature). I haven't read enough in it, yet, to vouch for the quality of writing, but everything leads me to believe that it, too, is excellent. Enjoy. Title: *History and Culture eBook. Format(s):* Pdf. Author(s): Mashantucket Pequot Museum. Publisher: Mashantucket Pequot Museum. Pages: 91. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): N/A. Price: *$0.00. Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there:* N/A. Book Description (Amazon): Comments: I believe this to be a legal free download based upon the fact that it is offered as an implied free download, and a link is provided to it, at http://www.pequotmuseum.org/eBook.aspx. URL: http://www.pequotmuseum.org/uploaded...ture_ebook.pdf (direct link). Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-31-2016 at 07:53 PM.