"Bahar argues persuasively that understanding Indigenous peoples ability to maintain their homelands in this part of North America requires a deeper consideration of their maritime strength.Storm of the Sea should be read widely by anyone interested in Indigenous power, Atlantic history, and resistance to settler colonialism." -- Jeffers Lenox, American Historical Review "Bahar's book is a path-breaking achievement. In uncovering an often ignored story of Native American maritime involvement in the Atlantic Northeast, it provides an important and commendable contribution to the history of the region's indigenous peoples as well as Early American maritime history. Storm of the Sea is well researched, argued, and pursues an original argument." -- Christoph Strobel, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Journal of Early American History "A strikingly original history.Storm of the Sea constitutes an important historiographical intervention.Indeed, Bahar has performed a service by highlighting issues that future scholars of the Northeast and of maritime history will need to confront in moving their fields forward.

Bahar's writing is consistently felicitous, rendering often complicated material in jargon-free prose that will prove accessible to nonspecialists at all academic levels." -- Neal Salisbury, William and Mary Quarterly "Many historians recognize that colonial America was, in many ways, places, and periods, shaped by Indigenous power. But by sea power? Recovering a time when Indian sailors, ships, and nautical prowess dominated coastal waters from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts, Matthew Bahar adds another dimension to understanding the Wabanaki confederacy and expands the narrative of encounter in early America."--Colin G. Calloway, author of The Indian World of George Washington "In this groundbreaking study, Matthew Bahar places Native American sailors at the helm. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he shows, Wabanaki seamen controlled the coast between Maine and Newfoundland by building, commandeering, and deftly navigating European vessels. Native sailors often overpowered European traders and fishermen, instilling fear across the Dawnland and demanding European deference to Native American authority. Deeply researched and altogether illuminating, Storm of the Sea makes significant contributions to both Native American and maritime history.

" --Christopher L. Pastore, author of Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England "Storm of the Sea is a revisionist blockbuster. No one before has traced, or even barely hinted at, the story of how the Mi'kmaqs and Wabanakis appropriated European sailing technology to empower their people and control the coasts of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes during the colonial age. Matthew Bahar powerfully demonstrates that a series of Mi'kmaq and Wabanaki sachems led a 150-year 'blue water strategy' enabling indigenous people to exercise hegemony over this region. For generations, scholars have assumed that the English remained scarce in colonial Maine because they set their sights elsewhere. Bahar shows instead that indigenous mariners defeated them there, over and over again. Beautifully written, deeply researched, and original, this is the most important work on the Wabanakis, Mi'kmaqs and colonial Maine to appear in decades."--David J.

Silverman, author of Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America.