Before European  incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians  inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake  Champlain and Connecticut River valleys. This history of their  coexistence and conflicts with whites on the northern New England  frontier documents their survival as a people-recently at issue in the  courts-and their wars and migrations, as far north as Quebec, during the  first two centuries of white contacts.Written clearly and authoritatively,  with sympathy for this long-neglected tribe, Colin G. Calloway's account  of the Western Abenaki diaspora adds to the growing interest in remnant  Indian groups of North America. This history of an Algonquian group on  the periphery of the Iroquois Confederacy is also a major contribution  to general Indian historiography and to studies of Indian white  interactions, cultural persistence, and ethnic identity in North America.

The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People (Civilization of the American Indian) PDF

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