This fortnight, Ken and Gabe discuss early Indigenous-European contacts in New Brunswick. The Far Northeast was the second earliest site of sustained Indigenous-European interaction, and events here fundamentally shaped North American history. Tune in this fortnight to hear about this collision of histories, the importance of cod and furs, and for Ken and Gabe to fail to answer the question “how many people lived here.”

Show Notes

Cox, Steven L. 2000. An Early Contact Native Site on the Upper St. Croix River. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 40(2):1-10.

Graeber, D., & Wengrow, D. 2021. The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Holly, D. H. 2013. History in the making : the archaeology of the eastern subarctic. AltaMira Press.

MacDonald, S.L. 1994. Exploring Patterns of Prehistoric Lithic Material Use in the Insular Quoddy Region, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. Master's, Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

Martin, Calvin. 1975. The Four Lives of a Micmac Copper Pot. Ethnohistory 22(2):111-133.

Prins, Harald E. L. 1992. Cornfields at Meductic: Ethnic and Territorial Reconfigurations in Colonial Acadia. Man in the Northeast 44:55-72.

Sanger, D. 1991. Five Thousand Years of Contact Between Maine and Nova Scotia. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 31(2):55-61

Silliman, Stephen W. 2005. Culture Contact or Colonialism? Challenges in the Archaeology of Native North America. American Antiquity 70(1):55-74.

Spiess, Arthur E., and Bruce D. Spiess. 1987. New England Pandemic of 1616-1622: Cause and Archaeological Implication. Man in the Northeast 34:71-83.

Turgeon, Laurier. 1998. French Fishers, Fur Traders, and Amerindians during the Sixteenth Century: History and Archaeology. The William and Mary Quarterly 55(4):585-610.

White, Sam. 2017. A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America. Harvard University Press.

John Cabot Heritage Minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8G9sFOK5w

Hit pieces

Check out reviews of The Far Northeast: 3000 BP - Contact and Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast in volume 90 of Northeast Anthropology

CMH’s podcast “Artifactuality” episode 3, featuring Gabe Yanicki (not in an airport Chilis) in discussion with Blackfoot about connections among the Wally’s Beach site, and ice-free corridor, and oral history (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-we-have-always-been-here/id1689441415?i=1000616617670

Potential Heritage District for Fredericton: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-heritage-development-1.6870034