In Search of New England's Native Past : Selected Essays by Gordon M. Day Book

	List of Illustrations and Maps
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Indian as an Ecological Factor in the Northeastern Forest	27
2	Dartmouth and Saint Francis	49
3	A Bibliography of the Saint Francis Dialect	54
4	The Name Contoocook	61
5	English-Indian Contracts in New England	65
6	The Tree Nomenclature of the Saint Francis Indians	72
7	From "A Saint Francis Abenaki Vocabulary"	84
8	The Identity of the Sokokis	89
9	An Agawam Fragment	98
10	Historical Notes on New England Languages	102
11	Iroquois: An Etymology	109
12	The Eastern Boundary of Iroquoia: Abenaki Evidence	116
13	The Name Algonquin	123
14	Oral Tradition as Complement	127
15	The Problem of the Openangos	136
16	Missisquoi: A New Look at an Old Village	141
17	The Penobscot War Bow	148
18	From The Mots loups of Father Mathevet	160
19	The Western Abenaki Transformer	183
20	Indian Place-Names as Ethnohistoric Data	195
21	Western Abenaki	202
22	Arosagunticook and Androscoggin	223
23	Abenaki Place-Names in the Champlain Valley	229
24	From The Identity of the Saint Francis Indians	263
	List of Works Cited in Day's Papers	279
	Bibliography of Gordon M. Day	307
	Index of Names, Languages, Places, and Indian Groups	311