...Jean M. O'Brien; Lisa Blee This article explores questions surrounding the memory work of monuments and place by taking up a puzzling instance of public display of history: the presence of an enormous monument to the important seventeenth-century Pokanoket leader Massasoit in Kansas City, Missouri...

...Margaret Ellen Newell Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit . By Lisa Blee and Jean M. O’Brien ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2019 . 288 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper.) Copyright 2021 by American Society...

... with the opposite of an unmarked grave: a memorial with no body beneath it. Jean M. O’Brien and Lisa Blee open with the surprising sight of a huge bronze statue of Massasoit, the Poka- noket sachem who brokered an alliance with Puritan settlers in the seven- teenth century, some thirteen hundred miles from...

..., Mexico 671 Mundy, Barbara E. Place-­Names in Mexico-­Tenochtitlan 329 O’Brien, Jean M., and Lisa Blee. What Is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History 635 Olko, Justyna. Body Language in the Preconquest...

... for helping old Aches in old people’’ and was ‘‘worn as a Coat William Bradford reported that early in the seventeenth century ‘‘sachems and some special persons’’ used wampum as a component of their adorn- ment. Another observer noted that the Pokanoket sachem Massasoit was adorned with both a black wolf...