The creation of editor and editorial assistant positions and support for community scholars to facilitate the continuation of a digital project on the history of New England tribal communities.

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center and Native Northeast Research Collaborative propose to transcribe, edit, annotate and publish online, a series of 19th-Century Eastern and Mashantucket Pequot manuscript overseer reports. The records detail the income and expenses of two Native communities and include debt accounting through goods and services delivered to tribal members and income derived from land rental or labor, providing unique insights into the daily lives of Native people in Early Republic Connecticut. Tribal representatives will review content, work collaboratively with Editors in the annotation process, adding information, commentary and perspective. The efforts will result in a collection of more than 100 previously unpublished, freely-accessible high-quality images, two forms of transcriptions, metadata, interactive biographies and commentary for tribal, scholarly, educational and public use.

Preparation for online publication of a scholarly critical edition of Connecticut Native American primary source materials. (36 months)

The Yale Indian Papers Project is a cooperative endeavor among Yale University, the Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Massachusetts Archives, and the National Archives (U.K.) to address the dearth of published primary source materials on Connecticut Indians. It intends to fill this informational gap by creating an open-access virtual repository containing digital images of a series of relevant Connecticut Native American documents with corresponding transcriptions and annotations to be prepared during the proposed grant period and presented as The New England Indian Papers Series: The Connecticut Colony Collection, 1603-1783.

The creation of ten new jobs and the development of an open-access collection of documents on the 18th-century history of the two Tunxis reservations in Farmington, Connecticut.

Set out in 1640, two Tunxis Indian reservations in Farmington, CT were among the earliest established in America. To more fully understand parts of Farmington as a distinctly Indigenous place, we propose to explore the theme of “A More Perfect Union” through the lens of land transfers by the Tunxis as individuals and as a communal entity for over 180 years.