The White Sachem (Richard Bourne and the Wampanoag): The Extraordinary Life of Cape Cod's Forgotten Peacemaker - Softcover

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The Wampanoag people lived on Cape Cod before it was a tourist destination.

The White Sachem tells the story of Richard Bourne, a seventeenth-century English settler, Plymouth Colony deputy, and missionary whose life took an unexpected turn in the marshes and villages of Cape Cod. In an age when colonists usually treated Native land as something to be claimed, divided, and erased, Bourne helped secure the 1665 Mashpee deed, a remarkable document that protected Wampanoag land from sale without the consent of the whole people.

But this is not a white-savior legend. It is also the story of Quachetasset, Paupmunnuck, Simon Popmonet, the Mashpee and Herring Pond Wampanoag, and the Indigenous political wisdom Bourne learned to recognize. From the Great Dying and the first European kidnappings to the praying Indian missions, King Philip's War, and the long survival of Mashpee, Dr. Phillip G. Andrade tells a careful narrative history that honors both the written record and the places where the record falls silent.

"The White Sachem" reconstructs a lost piece of New England history by examining deeds, colonial documents, missionary accounts, and current scholarly work. It tells a story of territory, belief, misfortune, agreement, and endurance.

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