A former senior researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and land management coordinator for the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, Tobias holds a M.A in Ethnobotany from Connecticut College. In addition to his more recent work with Connecticut Native people, he has worked for the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and on a variety of projects in New England including the Boston Harbor Islands Ethnographic Assessment for the National Park Service and the federal recognition efforts of the Eastern Pequot, the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc in Massachusetts, and Shinnecock Tribe of Long Island, New York.
Tobias’ research interests include land use, environmental history and changes in Native communities and land tenure in New England. His latest publications include Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape, Connecticut Explored, 10:35-39; P. Grant-Costa, T. Glaza, and M. Sletcher, “The Common Pot: Editing Native American Materials,” Scholarly Editing 33. K. Burgess, P. Grant-Costa, and T. Glaza, On the Edge: Early Landscapes and People of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area. Native American Anthropological Overview and Assessment, National Park Service (2008). M. Lawson et at., Response of the Nipmuc Nation to the Proposed Finding against Federal Acknowledgement (2004); W. Simmons, K. Bragdon, M. Flowers, et al., Being an Indian in Connecticut: The Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut’s Comments on the Proposed Findings of the Bureau of Acknowledgement and Recognition of March 2000 (2001).
Tobias’ research interests include land use, environmental history and changes in Native communities and land tenure in New England. His latest publications include Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape, Connecticut Explored, 10:35-39; P. Grant-Costa, T. Glaza, and M. Sletcher, “The Common Pot: Editing Native American Materials,” Scholarly Editing 33. K. Burgess, P. Grant-Costa, and T. Glaza, On the Edge: Early Landscapes and People of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area. Native American Anthropological Overview and Assessment, National Park Service (2008). M. Lawson et at., Response of the Nipmuc Nation to the Proposed Finding against Federal Acknowledgement (2004); W. Simmons, K. Bragdon, M. Flowers, et al., Being an Indian in Connecticut: The Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut’s Comments on the Proposed Findings of the Bureau of Acknowledgement and Recognition of March 2000 (2001).