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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Preface to the Revised Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Native Peoples of Vermont | |
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Linguistic Affiliations | |
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The Environmental Setting | |
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Chronology | |
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Radiocarbon Dating | |
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Archaeological Method | |
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Ethnohistoric Method | |
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The Beckoning Country: Paleoindians Come to Vermont | |
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Late Glacial Environments | |
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The Reagen Site | |
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Other Paleoindian Sites in Vermont | |
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Paleoindians and the Late Glacial Environment | |
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How Paleoindians Came to Vermont | |
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The Archaic: A New Way of Life Comes to Vermont | |
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The Origin of Archaic Culture | |
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Early Archaic Culture in Vermont | |
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Middle Archaic Culture in Vermont | |
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Late Archaic Culture in Vermont | |
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Ketcham's Island and the Vergennes Archaic | |
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Other Vergennes Archaic Sites | |
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The Age of the Vergennes Archaic | |
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The Origin and Significance of Ground Stone Tools | |
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Linguistic Relationships | |
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Evolution of the Vergennes Archaic | |
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Glacial Kame Burials | |
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The Archaic as a Way of Life | |
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The Woodland Period in Vermont: Variations on the Archaic Theme | |
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The Early Woodland Period | |
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The Boucher Site | |
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Other Early Woodland Cemeteries | |
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Early Woodland Habitation Sites | |
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Early Woodland Culture | |
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The Middle Woodland Period and the Winooski Site | |
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Other Middle Woodland Sites in the Winooski Intervale | |
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Middle Woodland Sites Elsewhere in Vermont | |
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The Late Woodland Period | |
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The Skitchewaug Site and the Adoption of Horticulture | |
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Other Connecticut Valley Sites | |
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Horticulture in the Champlain Valley: The Donohue Site | |
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Other Late Woodland Sites in the Champlain Valley | |
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The St. Lawrence Iroquois and the "Iroquois Problem" | |
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Life in Vermont at the Dawn of Recorded History | |
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The Western Abenakis and Their Neighbors | |
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Western Abenaki Settlement and Subsistence | |
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Technology | |
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Western Abenaki Social Organization | |
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Political Organization | |
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Western Abenaki Life Cycle | |
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Western Abenaki Worldview | |
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Social Control in Western Abenaki Society | |
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Roots of Abenaki Culture | |
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The European Takeover of Vermont: Two Hundred Years of Turmoil | |
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Epidemics and Plague | |
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The Fur Trade | |
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The British Menace | |
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The Abenaki-Iroquoian Wars | |
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The Abenaki-British Wars | |
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British Encroachment | |
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The Allens and Usurpation by the New United States | |
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Survival and Renewal: The Last Two Hundred Years | |
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The Continuing Abenaki Presence | |
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The Survival of Abenaki Traditions | |
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The Abenaki Renewal | |
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The Abenakis Today | |
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App. A. Lease to James Robertson, Swanton Falls (1765) | |
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App. B. Odanak and Becancour Abenaki Band Council Resolution of 1976 | |
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App. C. Odanak and Becancour Abenaki Band Council Resolution of 1977 | |
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App. D. State of Vermont Executive Order of 1976 | |
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App. E. State of Vermont Executive Order of 1977 | |
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Bibliographic Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |