Hello, Pat, You may be interested in a new film that views the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from a different prospective. This one is a documentary of the Wampanoag Tribes of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard who were the Native Americans who met the Pilgrims when they arrived. Their English texts of transactions with the Wampanoag have survived, and now help the tribes to recover the spoken language that was lost. The English settlers even translated the Bible into Wampanoag language to assist in their religious conversion.
We Still Live Here (DVD, 2011, 56 minutes) Directed and produced by Anne Makepeace. Celebrated every Thanksgiving as the Indians who saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and then largely forgotten, the Wampanoag Tribes of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are now saying loud and clear, and in their Native tongue, "As Nutayuneân," - We Still Live Here. Spurred on by their celebrated linguist, Jessie Little Doe Baird, recent winner of a MacArthur `genius' award, the Wampanoag are bringing their language home. http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/wslh.html Let me know if you have any questions. Elizabeth Stanley Bullfrog Films elizab...@bullfrogfilms.com<mailto:elizab...@bullfrogfilms.com> ________________________________ From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Pat Mcgee Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:41 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] Film on the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Hello all, Does anyone have a recommendation of a good film on the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? Many thanks, Pat McGee Coordinator of Media Services Volpe Library and Media Center Tennessee Technological University Campus Box 5066 Cookeville, TN 38505 931-372-3544
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