| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians. By Patricia E. Rubertone. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. xxii, 248 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-56098-975-0.)

Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America (1643), the anthropologist Patricia E. Rubertone correctly points out, has been widely accepted as an authoritative description of the culture of the Narragansett Indians and their neighbors in the seventeenth century. Basing her argument on evidence unearthed at the RI-1000 site, a Narragansett cemetery dating from the 1670s near West Kingston, Rhode Island, Rubertone suggests that the all-too-common perception of Williams as "a folk-hero, who has been endowed with an uncanny ability to understand not only his own society but also that of the Narragansett Indians," is deeply problematic. . . .

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