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About the Books
This is book 1 and book 2 from the Reconnections Series.
Reconnections Volume 1: This is the first volume in our two-volume Reconnections series. It features essays by fourteen local knowledge keepers on topics ranging from the repatriation of their ancestors to the appropriation of Native art. Reconnections is beautifully illustrated with the work of eighteen Wampanoag and Narragansett artists.
Reconnections Volume 2: Written by a team of five authors including two local historians, a history and public humanities professor, a Wampanoag educator, and an archaeologist, Reconnections: A New History of the Sakonnet Wampanoag People is a local history that focuses on Sakonnet and the Indigenous people who have lived here for 13,000 years. Based on primary source research, archaeological evidence, and Wampanoag traditions, the book shares the history of the Sakonnet Wampanoag people from the time of the last ice age to the present day in an accurate and respectful way. It is the companion book to Reconnections: Essays and Artwork by Wampanoag & Narragansett Knowledge Keepers which was published in 2025.
Both books are part of the Historical Society’s Sakonnet History Project.
