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The Last of the Bird People
Wilderness House Press, 2012 In 1928, Massachusetts water authorities began land takings in the Swift River Valley in order to construct the Quabbin Reservoir, which at the time was the largest public works project in the United States. What the authorities did not realize, until they were contacted by a Harvard University anthropologist named Minor Randall, was the fact that there was a secretive band of mixed race hunter-gatherers living in the more remote forested tracts of the valley who had been subsisting undiscovered in the area for over ten generations.
This book, taken from a legal deposition discovered in the archives of the university, is the story of the fate of these retiring, peaceable people and the young anthropologist who discovered them. |
John Hanson Mitchell
