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Algonkians of New England: Past and Present

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
29 and 30 June 1991

CONTENTS

Introduction
Neal Salisbury

SECTION I: ALGONKIAN FOLKLORE AND WORLD VIEW

“The Examination of Sarah Ahhaton”: The Politics of “Adultery” in an Indian Town of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
Ann Marie Plane

Vernacular Literacy and Massachusetts World View, 1650–1750
Kathleen J. Bragdon

The Algonkian Spiritual Landscape
Constance A. Crosby

SECTION II: ALGONKIAN SUBSISTENCE PRACTICES

It Smells Fishy to Me: An Argument Supporting the Use of Fish Fertilizer by the Native People of Southern New England
Nanepashemet

SECTION III: CONFLICT, DISPERSION, CULTURAL CONTINUITY

New England Algonkians in the American Revolution
Colin G. Calloway

“Ancient and Crazie”: Pequot Lifeways during the Historic Period
Kevin A. McBride

SECTION IV: NEW ENGLAND ALGONKIANS IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

Native Basketry, Basketry Styles, and Changing Group Identity in Southern New England
Ann McMullen

William Apess and the Survival of the Pequot People
Barry O’Connell

Joseph Laurent’s Intervale Camp: Post-Colonial Abenaki Adaptation and Revitalization in New Hampshire
Gary W. Hume

Change and Continuity of Spiritual Practice among the Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians of Webster, Massachusetts
Diane Fisk Bray

SECTION V: ICONOGRAPHY

Taken from Life: Early Photographic Portraits of New England Algonkians, ca. 1845–1865
Jane Van Norman Turano

SECTION VI: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES

Selected Bibliography of Algonkian Peoples in New England
Lecture Program, Museum Program, and Tour: 28 through 30 June 1991
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photo and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors