The place of stone: Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past

A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder

First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock

Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism

Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes

Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity

Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears

Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock

Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology

Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone

Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory

American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic

The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.