Introduction / Neal Salisbury -- 'The examination of Sarah Ahhaton': the politics of 'adultery' in an Indian town of seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Ann Marie Plane -- Vernacular literacy and Massachusetts world view, 1650-1750 / Kathleen J. Bragdon -- The Algonkian spiritual landscape / Constance A. Crosby -- It smells fishy to me: an argument supporting the use of fish fertilizer by the native people of southern New England / Nanepashemet -- New England Algonkians in the American Revolution / Colin G. Calloway -- 'Ancient and crazie': Pequot lifeways during the historic period / Kevin A. McBride -- Native basketry, basketry styles, and changing group identity in southern New England / Ann McMullen -- William Apess and the survival of the Pequot people / Barry O'Connell -- Joseph Laurent's Intervale camp: post-colonial Abenaki adaptation and revitalization in New Hampshire / Gary W. Hume -- Change and continuity of spiritual practice among the Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians of Webster, Massachusetts / Diane Fisk Bray -- Taken from life: early photographic portraits of New England Algonkians, ca. 1845-1865 / Jane Van Norman Turano.