Download or read book Living with Whales written by Nancy Shoemaker and published by Native Americans of the Northe. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Living with Whales, Nancy Shoemaker reconstructs the history of Native whaling in New England through a diversity of primary documents: explorers' descriptions of their "first encounters," indentures, deeds, merchants' accounts. Indian overseer reports, crew lists, memoirs, obituaries, and excerpts from journals kept by Native whalemen on their voyages. These materials span the centuries-long rise and fall of the American whalefishery and give insight into the far-reaching impact of whaling on Native North American communities. Whaling has left behind a legacy of ambivalent emotion s. In oral histories included in this volume, descendants of Wampanoag and Shinnecock whalemen-Ramona Peters, Elizabeth James Perry, Jonathan Perry, Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile, Holly Haile Davis, and David Bunn Martine-reflect on how whales, whaling, and the ocean were vital to the survival of coastal Native communities in the Northeast, but at great cost to human life, family life, whales, and the ocean environment. Book jacket.