tailieunhanh - The Abenaki Indians Their Treaties of 1713 & 1717, and a Vocabulary

The present spirit of inquiry into the early history of New England is bringing forth additional facts and evolving new light, by which we are every day seeing more clearly the true motive and incentives for its colonization. But whenever the student turns to investigate the history of the aboriginal tribes, who once inhabited this part of the country, he is struck, not so much with the paucity of materials, as with the complication and difficulties which our earlier and later writers have thrown around the subject, as well as the very different light with which they have viewed it | The Abenaki Indians by Frederic Kidder 1 The Abenaki Indians by Frederic Kidder The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Abenaki Indians by Frederic Kidder This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Abenaki Indians Their Treaties of 1713 1717 and a Vocabulary Author Frederic Kidder Release Date May 10 2008 EBook 25416 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ABENAKI INDIANS Produced by Jeannie Howse Chuck Greif Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions Transcriber s Notes 1 Some treaty signatures are unclear and have been marked and or best-guessed. Original signature images can be seen in the html version. 2 The breve has been rendered as c and the macron o 3 Text following A is superscripted. 4 Unusual and inconsistent spelling of place names have been left as in the original. The Abenaki Indians by Frederic Kidder 2 THE ABENAKI INDIANS THEIR TREATIES OF 1713 1717 AND A VOCABULARY WITH A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. BY FREDERIC KIDDER OF BOSTON. PORTLAND PRINTED BY BROWN THURSTON. 1859. THE ABENAKI INDIANS. The present spirit of inquiry into the early history of New England is bringing forth additional facts and evolving new light by which we are every day seeing more clearly the true motive and incentives for its colonization. But whenever the student turns to investigate the history of the aboriginal tribes who once inhabited this part of the country he is struck not so much with the paucity of materials as with the complication and difficulties which our earlier and later writers have thrown around the subject as well as the very .