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?
Today, 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.
Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/104)
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