Before the First Whalemen: The Emergence and Loss of Indigenous Maritime Autonomy in New England, 1672–1740

Chaves, Kelly K.

doi:10.1162/TNEQ_a_00344

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March 01 2014

Before the First Whalemen: The Emergence and Loss of Indigenous Maritime Autonomy in New England, 1672–1740

Kelly K. Chaves

Kelly K. Chaves is a doctoral candidate at the University of New Brunswick. Her research demonstrates that the clash of European and indigenous cultures in colonial North America was, essentially, a confrontation between maritime equals fighting over which group of maritime people would control the littoral. Her work has been published in the Northern Mariner, Coriolis, and The Historian.

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Kelly K. Chaves

Kelly K. Chaves is a doctoral candidate at the University of New Brunswick. Her research demonstrates that the clash of European and indigenous cultures in colonial North America was, essentially, a confrontation between maritime equals fighting over which group of maritime people would control the littoral. Her work has been published in the Northern Mariner, Coriolis, and The Historian.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2014

The New England Quarterly (2014) 87 (1): 46–71.

https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00344

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Before contact, the ocean centered prominently in the lives of Native Americans. After Europeans controlled New England's littoral, Natives connected to the sea in Nantucket's commercial codfishery. Native codfishermen exercised autonomy; with the rise of the whaling, that power was lost and Native whalefishermen became indebted to their whale merchants.

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