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A PEOPLE AND A PLACE by GLENDA LUCK SCROLL DOWN MANISSES A Musical Odyssey through Block Island's SCROLL DOWN Native American History. BILL SELLAR ROBERT STERN VIOLIN DRUMS JOHN WHITAKER BASS BANJO BASS / BANJO GLENDA LUCK VOCALS/ GUITAR / PIANO / WURLITZER / BANJO / BONES / HAND CLAPPING / HARMONICA BOOKS

Bellantoni, Nicholas F. Faunal Resource Availability and Prehistoric
Cultural Selection on Block Island, Rhode island.
PhD Diss. University of Connecticut, 1987. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2000. Print.

Niles, Samuel. Niles History of the Indian and French Wars (p196-197)
re: silver paddles Massachusetts Historical Society., Collections. Ser. 3,
v. 6 (1837). Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society.

Livermore, S.T. Livermore's History of Block Island Rhode Island.
Forge Village, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company, 1877,1961.
Print.

McBride, Kevin A. “Fort Island: Conflict and Trade in Long Island Sound.”
Native Forts of the Long Island Sound Area.Ed. Gaynell Stone. Stony
Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeological Association /Nassau County
Archaeological Committee, 2006. 255-266. Print.

Reiser, Christine N. “Safeguarding the 'Mint': Wampum Production and
the Social Uses of Space at Fort Island.” Native Forts of the Long Island
Sound Area.Ed. Gaynell Stone. Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County
Archaeological Association/Nassau County Archaeological Committee,
2006. Print.

Williams, Roger. What Cheer, Netop!: Selections from A Key Into the
Language of America. Providence, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of
Anthropology, Brown Univ.,1986. Print.

Howe, Jeffrey. The History and Genealogy of Descendants of Slaves and
Indians from the Island of “Manissee” Block Island. Riverside, RI: Jeffrey
Howe, 1997. Print.

Downie, Robert M. Block Island - The Land. Block Island, RI: Book Nook
Press, 2001. Print.

Gardiner, Curtiss C. The Papers and Biography of Lion Gardner. St. Louis:
Press of Levison & Blythe Stationery Co., 1883. Web. 2012.

Underhill, John and Royster, Paul, editor, “Newes from America; Or, A New
and Experimentall Discoverie of New England; Containing, A Trve Relation
of Their War-like Proceedings These Two Yeares Last Past, with a Figure of
the Indian Fort, or Palizado” (1638). Electronic Texts in American Studies.
Paper 37. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/37
JOURNALS

Nixon, Scott. “Marine Resources and the Human Carrying Capacity of
Coastal Ecosystems in Southern New England Before European Contact.”
Northeast Anthropology 68 (2004): 1. Print.

The Ecology of Block Island Proceedings of the Rhode Island Natural
History Survey Conference October 28, 2000. Ed. Peter W. Paton, Lisa
L. Gould, Peter V. August, Alexander O. Frost. Kingston, RI: The Rhode
Island Natural History Survey, 2002. Print.


INTERVIEWS

Comings, Scott. Personal interview with the author. 2012.

Dubois, Coni. Personal interview with the author. 2012-2013.

Ives, Goddard. "RE: A question re: Rhode Island Place Names."
Message to Glenda Luck. October 12, 2011. E-mail.

McBride, Kevin. Series of Personal interviews with the author. 2011-2013.

Spears, Lorén. Personal interviews with the author. 2011-2013.


FILMS

500 Nations. Dir. Jack Leustig. Writ. Jack Leustig, Roberta A Grossman,
Lee Miller, W.T. Morgan, Dr. John M.D. Pohl. Head of Research, Lee Miller.
Prod. Roberta Grossman, Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Jack Leustig. TIG
Productions, RCS Films & T.V., Magestic Films, Television International, 1995.

American Experience: We Shall Remain. Dir. Chris Eyre, Ric
Burns,Stanley Nelson Jr., Dustinn Craig, Sarah Colt. Writ. Dustinn Craig, Sarah
Colt, Ric Burns, Mark Zwonitzer, Marcia Smith, Anne Makepeace, Sharon
Grimberg. Prod. Stanley Nelson, Ric Burns, Mark Zwonitzer, Rob Rapley,
Dustinn Craig, Sarah Colt. PBS Home Video, 2009. DVD.
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