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

Author/creator Day, Gordon M.
Other author Foster, Michael K., 1938-
Other author Cowan, William.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxiv, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Abenaki Indians--History. --Sources.
Abenaki Indians--Migrations.
Abenaki Indians--Social life and customs.
Ethnohistory--New England.
Ethnohistory--Québec (Province).

SeriesNative Americans of the Northeast
Native Americans of the Northeast. ^A289459
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".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-305) and index.
Bibliography note"Bibliography of Gordon M. Day": p. 307-310.
LCCN 98011154
ISBN1558491503 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1558491511 (pbk. : alk. paper)