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Roger Williams (1603?–1683) was Rhode Island’s renaissance man. Founder of the colony and its principal political and religious leader through much of his long life, he also served as a pastor, missionary, philosopher, diplomat, and magistrate (James 1978). He was, in addition, an Indian trader and keen observer of native culture. In one of the first substantial ethnographies of a North American Indian people, his 1643 A Key into the Language of America, Williams recorded the vocabulary and systematically examined the lifeways of his Narragansett neighbors (Williams 1936).
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Turnbaugh, W.A. (1993). Assessing the Significance of European Goods in Seventeenth-Century Narragansett Society. In: Rogers, J.D., Wilson, S.M. (eds) Ethnohistory and Archaeology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1115-5_9
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