198 Saltwater Frontier: Native Americans and the Contest for the Northeastern Coast

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

When we think of Native Americans, many of us think of inland dwellers. People adept at navigating forests and rivers and the skilled hunters and horsemen who lived and hunted on the American Plains. But did you know that Native Americans were seafaring mariners too? Andrew Lipman, an Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University and author of The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast, leads us on an exploration of the northeastern coastline and of the Native American and European peoples who lived there during the seventeenth century. This episode originally posted as Episode 104. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/198 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute BFWorld Newsletter Signup Complementary Episodes Episode 079: James Horn, What is a Historical Source? (Colonial Jamestown) Episode 121: Wim Klooster, The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Centur Atlantic World EpIsode 132: Coll Thrush, Indigenous London: Native Travelers in the Heart of the Empire Episode 185: Joyce Goodfriend, Early New York City and Its Culture Episode 191: Lisa Brooks, A New History of King Philip’s War Episode 196: Alejandra Dubcovsky, Information Exchange in the Early Southeast Helpful Show Links Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Join the Ben Franklin's World Community Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App *Books purchased through this link will help support the production of Ben Franklin's World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's World is a production of the
0:02.4	O'Mohandro Institute.
0:03.8	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World,
0:07.4	a podcast about early American history with Liz Covert.
0:11.4	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
0:17.0	Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and
0:24.3	now here's your host Liz Koval.
0:27.1	Hello and welcome to episode 198 of Ben Franklin's world
0:31.7	the podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:40.0	This is the third installment of our four episode series about the ways different Native American peoples
0:46.4	interacted with different European colonists.
0:49.2	Over the last two episodes, we've explored different ways that the Native Americans in the early American
0:54.4	Southeast and in the Great Lakes region in New France found various mediums to interact with
1:00.2	an exchange their culture with both one another and with Europeans and
1:03.9	colonists. This episode is really no different and that we will explore yet
1:08.7	another medium Native Americans and European colonists use to interact with each other and to shape
1:14.4	one another's culture and that would be the sea. In this episode we'll
1:19.6	visit the maritime region between present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts and New York City.
1:24.6	Only during our visit, it will be the 17th century.
1:28.1	So we'll know this region by its 17th century European imperial designations. The area between the English colony of Plymouth and the Dutch
1:36.0	settlement at New Amsterdam, which was part of the colony of New Naderland or New Netherlands.
1:41.3	Now as we'll find from our guide Andrew Lippman, this was a really diverse
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