Mashpee: The Story of Cape Cod's Indian Town

West Franklin NH: Amarta Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with only a touch of wear to the base of the spine; the jacket is a little age-browned along the spine, with a couple of itsy-bitsy nicks at the bottom edge of the front panel]. (B&W photographs, maps) This book "provides for the first time a documented account of the fortunes of a coastal New England Indian community from the era of European exploration down to the present day," including the landmark 1970s trial in which the Mashpee tribe filed suit against the town and private landholders of Mashpee, seeking to assert their rights as a tribe and recover their land. The jacket copy cites Alex Haley's 'Roots' as having aroused "great public interest [in] the histories of all of America's embattled, exploited non-white minorities." .