In search of New England's native past : selected essays
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In search of New England's native past : selected essays
（Native Americans of the Northeast）
University of Massachusetts Press, c1998
- : cloth : alk. paper
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-305) and index
"Bibliography of Gordon M. Day": p. 307-310
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: cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9781558491502
Description
This volume highlights the work of the late Gordon M. Day, renowned for his research on the history and culture of the Western Abenakis and their Indian neighbours. Synthesizing data from fragmentary historical records, oral traditions and place names, Day reconstructs New England's native past.
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: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9781558491519
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This volume highlights the work of the late Gordon M. Day, renowned for his groundbreaking research on the history and culture of the Western Abenakis and their Indian neighbors. Where previous historians had tended to portray northern New England as an area largely devoid of aboriginal peoples, Day established beyond all doubt the presence of Abenakj settlements along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain as well as the upperreaches of the Connecticut and Merrimack rivers. For nearly three decades, Day focused his work on the community of Saint Francis, or Odanak, in Quebec, to which Abenaki refugees from interior New England had fled, beginning in the mid-seventeenth century and continuing into the nineteenth. Drawing on the methods of several disciplines, including ethnology, linguistics, and ethnohistory, he synthesized data from fragmentary historical records, oral traditions, and place names to reconstruct a world assumed to be lost.
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