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Author Day, Gordon M.

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

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  974.004973 DAY    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  974.004 D273I    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series Native Americans of the Northeast
Native Americans of the Northeast.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-305) and index.
"Bibliography of Gordon M. Day": pages 307-310.
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".
Subject Abenaki Indians -- History -- Sources.
Abenaki Indians -- Migrations.
Abenaki Indians -- Social life and customs.
Ethnohistory -- New England.
Ethnohistory -- Québec (Province)
Added Author Foster, Michael K.
Cowan, William.
ISBN 1558491503 cloth alkaline paper
1558491511 paperback alkaline paper
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