Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land Matthews Sandra
Gold Winner of the 2023 IPPY Awards for Best Regional Book of Non-Fiction for New EnglandOccupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land is an art book that engages with history.…
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Gold Winner of the 2023 IPPY Awards for Best Regional Book of Non-Fiction for New EnglandOccupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land is an art book that engages with history. Featuring photographs of dwellings and vernacular structures found in rural Massachusetts, the book is a meditation on the human occupation of land, with an emphasis on the long presence of Indigenous people and the waves of settlement by people from other countries that began during the early 1600s and continues today.Utilizing a muted color palette, Matthews's photographs of both structures and historical markers are subtle and haunting. They suggest the presence of histories, embedded in the landscape but often invisible. Although the book is focused on Massachusetts, it implicitly raises larger issues of settlement and nationhood. How did the United States of
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