The contributions of material objects to ethnohistory in Native North America / Michael S. Nassaney and Eric S. Johnson -- Ritual and material culture as keys to cultural continuity: Native American interaction with Europeans in eastern Arkansas, 1541-1682 / Kathleen H. Cande -- The identity of Stadacona and Hochelaga: comprehension and conflict / James F. Pendergast -- Echoing the past: reconciling ethnohistorical and archaeological views of Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) ethnogenesis / John P. Staeck -- The politics of pottery: material culture and political process among Algonquians of seventeenth-century southern New England / Eric S. Johnson -- Emblems of ethnicity: ribbonwork garments from the Great Lakes region / Susan M. Neill -- François' House, a significant pedlars' post on the Saskatchewan / Alice Beck Kehoe -- Improving our understanding of Native American acculturation through the archaeological record: an example from the Mono Basin of eastern California / Brooke S. Arkush -- Cache pits: ethnohistory, archaeology, and the continuity of tradition / Sean B. Dunham -- Maple sugaring in prehistory: tapping the sources / Carol I. Mason and Margaret B. Holman -- Archaeology of a contact-period plateau Salishan village at Thompson's River Post, Kamloops, British Columbia / Catherine C. Carlson -- Obtaining information via defective documents: a search for the Mandan in George Catlin's paintings / Mark S. Parker Miller -- Images of women in Native American iconography / Larissa A. Thomas -- Tlingit human masks as documents of culture change and continuity / Barbara Brotherton -- One island, two places: archaeology, memory, and meaning in a Rhode Island town / Paul A. Robinson -- Archaeology and oral tradition in tandem: interpreting Native American ritual, ideology, and gender relations in contact-period southeastern New England / Michael S. Nassaney.