Quarter-Acre of Heartache
by Claude Clayton Smith

• The true story of the oldest and smallest Indian reservation in the country, told in the words of Chief Big Eagle of the Golden Hill tribe, Paugussett Nation (Connecticut).

• Chief Big Eagle tells of his ancestors and of their customs, and of his legal struggle to save the token parcel of land that is all that remains of the original Paugussett reservation, established in 1658 on a hill called Golden that is now in the city of Bridgeport.

• Excerpt: Pages 8-9: "At tribal councils, when a decision could not be reached unanimously, it was the Clan Mother who made the final decision; it was the Clan Mother who selected the next chief. I know about this because I was selected by the Clan Mother known as 'Rising Star.' She chose me to walk the path of my uncle Chief Black Hawk, who died in 1974. I am a thirty-generation descendant of the Paugussett nation. I am Aurelius Piper, Chief Big Eagle."

• Hardbound ISBN 0-936015-01-2
  • xvi + 168 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches
  • 30 photographs, 5 maps
  • $12.95 plus shipping, per copy

• Paperbound ISBN 0-936015-00-4
  • xvi + 168 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches
  • 30 photographs, 5 maps
  • 8.95 plus shipping, per copy

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