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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. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, Gordon M.
- Series:
- Native Americans of the Northeast
- Native Americans of the Northeast In search of New England's native past
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abenaki Indians--History--Sources.
- Abenaki Indians.
- Abenaki Indians--Migrations.
- Abenaki Indians--Social life and customs.
- Ethnohistory--New England.
- Ethnohistory.
- Ethnohistory--Québec (Province).
- Abenaki Indians--History--Sources--New England.
- Abenaki Indians--Migrations--Quâebec (Province).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 328 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- 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."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-305) and index.
- "Bibliography of Gordon M. Day": p. 307-310.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-14205-X
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