Papers of the ... Algonquian Conference, Volume 8Carleton University, 1977 - Algonquian Indians |
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Indian Place - Names as Ethnohistoric Data Gordon M. Day National Museum of Man Let us admit at the outset that Indian place - names are fun . They combine the romance of history , real or spurious , with the challenge of a detective ...
Indian Place - Names as Ethnohistoric Data Gordon M. Day National Museum of Man Let us admit at the outset that Indian place - names are fun . They combine the romance of history , real or spurious , with the challenge of a detective ...
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And for the sizable proportion of old names whose earliest and best form is still not transparent , the ultimate resource is the native speaker whose knowledge of the language and of the old way of life is exceptional and who at the ...
And for the sizable proportion of old names whose earliest and best form is still not transparent , the ultimate resource is the native speaker whose knowledge of the language and of the old way of life is exceptional and who at the ...
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This name locates the place where about 1694 an Abenaki war party was surprised and killed the warriors of a Mohawk ... Some descriptive names tell us something about the aboriginal environment or about the use of significance of the ...
This name locates the place where about 1694 an Abenaki war party was surprised and killed the warriors of a Mohawk ... Some descriptive names tell us something about the aboriginal environment or about the use of significance of the ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Day National Museum of Man INDIAN PLACENAMES | 26 |
Carole Lévesque Université de Montréal PRODUCTION | 32 |
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