Papers of the sixth Algonquian Conference, 1974
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Papers of the sixth Algonquian Conference, 1974

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  2. English
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Papers of the sixth Algonquian Conference, 1974

About this book

The Sixth Algonquian Conference was held in Ottawa, October 4-6, 1974. It was an inter-disciplinary conference embracing archaeology, history, ethnography and linguistics, and this collection comprises most of the papers presented.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. (Memorial University of Newfoundland): New Resources for Comparative Work in Algonkian Languages
  5. (Ashland, Montana): Linguistic Speculation on the Pre-history of the Cheyenne People
  6. (Lakehead University): The Western Area Algonkians
  7. (University of Wisconsin at Green Bay): Potowatomi Leadership Roles: On Okama and Other Influential Personages
  8. (University of North Carolina): Archaeological and Ethno-historical Data Bearing on the Southern Boundary of Algonkian Indian Occupation
  9. (Ridgefield, Connecticut): Notes on Anglo-Algonkian Contacts 1605-1624
  10. (Harvard University): Fox Social Organization 1650-1850
  11. (State University of New York at Fredonia): Membertou's Raid on the Chouacoet "Almouchiquois"--The Micmac Sack of Saco in 1607; English Translation of Marc Lescarbot
  12. (Assumption College): The Edison Insight and the Williams Materials
  13. (State University of New York at Oswego): The Origin of the Speakers of the Severn Dialect
  14. (University of Chicago): Fur Traders, Racial Categories, and Kinship Networks
  15. (McMaster University): Fur Trapping and Food Sharing in Fort George, Québec
  16. (University of Toronto): Diminutive Consonant Symbolism in Algonquian
  17. (Smith College): Prospero in New England: the Puritan Missionary as Colonist
  18. (Sarah Lawrence College): The European Failure to Convert the Indians: an Autopsy
  19. (Memorial Universtiy of Newfoundland): The Hidden Feast: Eating and Ideology Among the Mistassini Cree
  20. (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi): La Geographie: Noyau du Savoir Montagnais sur l'Environnement Physique
  21. (McMaster University): Eastern Cree Community in Relation to Fur Trade Post in the 1830's: The Background of the Posting Process
  22. (University of Western Ontario): Semantic Organization in Relation to the Traditional Algonquian Economy
  23. (Université du Montréal): Sur la Dialectologie Phonologique du Montagnais
  24. (McMaster University): Rock Art: A Metalinguistic Interpretation of the Algonkian Word for Stone
  25. (National Museum of Man): Early Merrimack Toponymy