Attempts to identify the contemporary language and culture of the Saint Francis Indians by tracing their origins in the written record, genealogies, oral tradition and language.

Using written records, genealogies, oral accounts, and linguistic analyses, the author attempts to link the Saint Francis Indians with their seventeenth century forebears. Despite gaps in the extant evidence, he postulates a relationship between the present population and the Sokwaki, Cowassuck, and Penacook tribes of the New Hampshire and Vermont upper Connecticut and Merrimack Valleys and, possibly, the tribes of the middle Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts and the Abenaki tribes of Maine as well.

New perspectives on three centuries of Indian presence in New England

A study of the development of contemporary Inuit literature, in both Inuktitut and English, including a discussion of its themes, structures and roots in oral tradition. The author concludes that a strong continuity persists between the two narrative forms despite apparent differences in subject matter and language.

A description of the phonology, morphonology, morphology, syntax, historical, areal, and typological features of the Salish language of Bella Coola, British Columbia.

This Ojibwa lexicon provides data on the geographical distribution and historical development of a variety of Ojibwa dialects. As many features of Ojibwa words are indicated by their endings, a reverse version, sorted right-to-left, is included.

This volume consists of a Micmac lexicon formulated on the basis of textual and anecdotal references collected over a quarter of a century from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Québec. It includes almost 5,500 Micmac words and their English equivalents and an exhaustive English key-word index.