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In search of New England's native past : selected essays / by Gordon M. Day ; edited by Michael K. Foster and William Cowan.

Day, Gordon M. (Author). Foster, Michael K. (Added Author). Cowan, William. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 1558491503 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781558491502 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1558491511 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781558491519 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-305) and index.
"Bibliography of Gordon M. Day": p. 307-310.
Formatted Contents Note:
The Indian as an ecological factor in the northeastern forest -- Dartmouth and Saint Francis -- A bibliography of the Saint Francis dialect -- The name Contoocook -- English-Indian contacts in New England -- The tree nomenclature of the Saint Francis Indians -- From "A Saint Francis Abenaki vocabulary" -- The identity of the Sokokis -- An Agawam fragment -- Historical notes on New England languages -- Iroquois: an etymology -- The eastern boundary of Iroquoia: Abenaki evidence -- The name Algonquin -- Oral tradition as complement -- The problem of the Openangos -- Missisquoi: a new look at an old village -- The Penobscot war bow -- From "The mots loups of Father Mathevet" -- The western Abenaki transformer -- Indian place-names as ethnohistoric data -- Western Abenaki -- Arosagunticook and Androscoggin -- Abenaki place-names in the Champlain valley -- From "The identity of the Saint Francis Indians".
Subject:
Abenaki Indians > History > Sources.
Abenaki Indians > Migrations.
Abenaki Indians > Social life and customs.
Ethnohistory > New England.
Ethnohistory > Québec (Province)
Abénaquis > Histoire > Sources
Abénaquis > Migrations.
Abénaquis > Mœurs et coutumes
Ethnohistoire > Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Ethnohistoire > Québec (Province)
Indianen.
Indianentalen.

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