Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel

Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, tribal historian for the Mohegan Nation in Connecticut, received the Native American Authors Award for Non-Fiction for her first book, The Lasting of the Mohegans. Her training in Mohegan traditions and spirituality came from her great-aunt, 104-year-old Mohegan Medicine Woman Gladys Tantaquidgeon, and her great-uncle Chief Harold Tantaquidgeon, both of whom began the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum with their father, John, in 1931, in Uncasville, Connecticut.