Abstract
This paper uses ideas developed by Ian McNiven in his analysis of ethnographic and archeological data for indigenous relationships with the sea in northeastern Australia, in combination with regional New England ethnographic and archeological scholarship to offer an alternative way to think about indigenous culture in Massachusetts as wet and dry aspects of indigenous homelands within a hydrogeographic perspective using fresh and saltwater drainages. This way to think is based on local people’s accumulated knowledge that conceptualizes water and landscapes as animated seascapes and spiritscapes of a homeland, incorporating cognitive aspects of navigation and watercraft construction and use.
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