Native American Place Names Of Maine New Hampshire Vermont
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Native American Place Names Of Maine New Hampshire Vermont
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Author : R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
language : en
Publisher: Applewood Books
Release Date : 2001
Native American Place Names Of Maine New Hampshire Vermont written by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow and has been published by Applewood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The Abanki confederacy of tribes of northern New England gets their name from the word Wabunaki meaning "land or country of the east" or "morning land."
Native American Place Names Of Massachusetts
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Author : R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
language : en
Publisher: Applewood Books
Release Date : 2001
Native American Place Names Of Massachusetts written by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow and has been published by Applewood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Massachusetts categories.
This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Massachusetts cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The current state of Massachusetts retains the name of the once inhabiting tribe, although its people were decimated by illness and disorganized by warfare around 1617. Massachusetts is a word meaning ""a hill in the form of an arrow-head.""
Native American Place Names Of Rhode Island
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Author : R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
language : en
Publisher: Applewood Books
Release Date : 2001
Native American Place Names Of Rhode Island written by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow and has been published by Applewood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Names, Geographical categories.
This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Rhode Island cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. What was the Narragansett territory is closely aligned with the current boundaries of the state of Rhode Island. The significance of the word Narragansett is "at the little point'" or "island."
Native American Place Names Of Connecticut
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Author : R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
language : en
Publisher: Applewood Books
Release Date : 2001
Native American Place Names Of Connecticut written by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow and has been published by Applewood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Connecticut cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The Pequots and Mohegans formed the majority of Connecticut Natives, occupying the territory from Narraganset to the Hudson River, along the Connecticut shore, and including Long Island. The Mystic River gets its name from Mistick meaning ""great tidal river.""
Native America 3 Volumes
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Author : Daniel S. Murphree
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-03-09
Native America 3 Volumes written by Daniel S. Murphree and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-09 with Social Science categories.
Employing innovative research and unique interpretations, these essays provide a fresh perspective on Native American history by focusing on how Indians lived and helped shape each of the United States. Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia comprises 50 chapters offering interpretations of Native American history through the lens of the states in which Indians lived or helped shape. This organizing structure and thematic focus allows readers access to information on specific Indians and the regions they lived in while also providing a collective overview of Native American relationships with the United States as a whole. These three volumes synthesize scholarship on the Native American past to provide both an academic and indigenous perspective on the subject, covering all states and the native peoples who lived in them or were instrumental to their development. Each state is featured in its own chapter, authored by a specialist on the region and its indigenous peoples. Each essay has these main sections: Chronology, Historical Overview, Notable Indians, Cultural Contributions, and Bibliography. The chapters are interspersed with photographs and illustrations that add visual clarity to the written content, put a human face on the individuals described, and depict the peoples and environment with which they interacted.
The Sea Mark
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Author : Russell M. Lawson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of New England
Release Date : 2015-03-22
The Sea Mark written by Russell M. Lawson and has been published by University Press of New England this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-22 with History categories.
The first complete narrative history of Captain John Smith's exploration of the New England coast
Uncommon Carriers
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Author : John McPhee
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2006-05-16
Uncommon Carriers written by John McPhee and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-16 with Transportation categories.
What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation. Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot,eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the "tight-assed" Illinois River on a "towboat" pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being "a good deal longer than the Titanic." And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John, in a homemade skiff in 1839. Uncommon Carriers is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.
A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-21
A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers written by Henry David Thoreau and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thoreau's classic account of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth This paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers features an invaluable introduction by noted writer John McPhee. Unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling, this classic work was Thoreau's first published book. In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. He wrote two drafts of this story at Walden Pond, which he continued to revise and expand until 1849, when he arranged for its publication at his own expense. The book's heterodoxy and apparent formlessness troubled its contemporary audience, but modern readers have come to see it as an appropriate predecessor to Walden.
Understanding Indian Place Names In Southern New England
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Author : Frank Waabu O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-09-15
Understanding Indian Place Names In Southern New England written by Frank Waabu O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-15 with History categories.
In New England, American Indian people have left their ancient footprints in many of the current names for mountains, rivers, lakes, animals, fish, cities, towns, and byways. The first English settlers, who put most of the American Indian words on the map, borrowed names from local tribes. In the process, they often misheard, mispronounced, or misreported what they heard - that is how the place Wequapaugset was given as Boxet or how Musquompskut became Swampscott. In many cases the Indian terms have changed so much over time that linguists are unable to recognize the original spelling and meaning. Others have tried their hand at translations, and have come up with fanciful interpretations that are incorrect, but that have stood the test of time. On the East Coast, the Native cultures and their Algonquian tongues had long faded before most scholarly studies began, so a great many translations of place names often represent a scholar's best guess. In this landmark volume, Dr. Frank Waabu O'Brien of the Aquidneck Indian Council, provides the first indigenous method and process for interpreting regional American Indian place names. Included is a dictionary of the most common misspellings, along with numerous examples of the Indian place names for Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Based on years of research, Understanding Indian Place Names is a landmark publication.
New England English
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Author : James N. Stanford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-14
New England English written by James N. Stanford and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of American English, and "New England accents" are very well known in the popular imagination. While other projects have studied various dialect regions of New England, this is the first large-scale academic project since the 1930s to focus specifically on New England English as a whole. In New England English, James N. Stanford presents new variationist sociolinguistic research covering all six New England states, with detailed geographic, acoustic phonetic, and statistical analyses of recently collected data from over 1,600 New Englanders. Stanford and his team of Dartmouth students built this dataset over 8 years of face-to-face fieldwork and online audio recordings and questionnaires. Using acoustic phonetics, computational processing, and dialect maps, the book systematically documents major traditional New England dialect features and their current usage in terms of geography, age, gender, ethnicity, social class, and other factors. This dataset is interpreted in terms of William Labov's outward orientation of the language faculty, dialect levelling, convergence and divergence, and "Hub social geometry." The result is a wide-ranging empirical analysis and theoretical overview of this influential English dialect region.