Black James
Black James (before 1640-circa 1686) (also known as Wullumahchein) was a
Quantisset and Maanexit in what is now eastern Connecticut near Rhode Island.[1][2] His dying speech was recorded by Rev. Daniel Takawambait and later published[3][4] and by 1686 a deed was signed by his heirs indicating that Black James was deceased, but another Indian used the name "Black James" until 1708.[5]
References
- ^ "Wullumahchein | Native Northeast Portal". nativenortheastportal.com. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ Connole, The Indians of the Nipmuck Country in Southern New England, 111, 162, 164, 236
- ^ "The Dying speeches of several Indians. Eliot, John, 1604-1690, tr" https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n00266.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
- ^ Craig White, "The Praying Indians' Speeches as Texts of Massachusett Oral Culture," Early American Literature, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2003), p. 457 accessible on JSTOR
- ^ "Summary under the Criteria and Evidence for Proposed Finding Webster/Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians: Prepared in response to a petition submitted to the Secretary of the Interior for Federal Acknowledgment that this group exists as an Indian tribe" (2001)p. 34 (citing Reese 1980, p. 28) https://www.bia.gov/sites/bia.gov/files/assets/as-ia/ofa/petition/069B_wbdnip_MA/069b_pf.pdf