Massachusetts Historical Commission

Native Americans of Massachusetts

Language, lifeways, society, tribes

Native American Landscapes of Massachusetts

An example, Pocumtuck

Wigwams or wetus

Yearly cycle of settlement and subsistence

Communal ownership of land and resources

The mythic landscape

Homeland and house

English settlers

Contrasts in attitudes, technologies

Epidemic disease, "Widowed land"

Transformations of the environment and economy

An example from Cape Cod

Native American landscape

European settlement

New economy, domestic animals, extractive industries

Ecological transformations, forest to dune

Economic reorganization