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Gordon M. Day, William Cowan, Michael K Foster - In Search of New England's Native Past, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

In Search of New England's Native Past

Selected Essays by Gordon M.Day

Av Gordon M. Day, William Cowan, Michael K Foster

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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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Michael K. Foster is curator emeritus at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. William Cowan is professor emeritus of linguistics at Carleton University.

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Not only did Day 'pioneer' a new field, but his publications remain basic sources today for anyone at all interested in this field. His articles are superb examples of ethnohistoric methodology. ... I would add that Day's prose is an absolute pleasure to read. - William A. Haviland, authro of The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants Past and Present - ""These essays confirm the astonishing breadth of Day's interest an scholarship and the meticulous, disciplined way he conducted research and wrote. Before Day began is work, scholars knew virtually nothing about the Western Abenakis and the Indian history of northwestern New England. This volume has the virtue of pulling together his most important pieces."" - Neal Salisbury, author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643.

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