Compiled for use in teaching reading and catechism to Indians by the 17th century missionary. Contains no ethnographic information.
28. Elliot, John, and Thomas Mayhew, “Tears of Repentance: or, A Further Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England,” MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS, Series 3, Vol. IV, 1834.
Letters dating ca. 1653; information concerning aboriginal religious beliefs and the way of becoming a powow.
29. Ellis, G.E., “The Indians of Eastern Massachusetts,” MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON, J. Winsor, ed., Vol I. (Boston) 1880, pp. 241-71.
Deals with the history of Anglo-Indian relationships. Not much ethnographic information.
30. Flannery, R., AN ANALYSIS OF COASTAL ALGONQUIAN CULTURE (Washington, D. C.; The Catholic University of America Press) 1939.
Trait list for southern New England; very complete, but the inclusion of tribes other than those in the immediate Plymouth region—i.e. Connecticut—calls for cross checking before accepting all things as true of local Indians.
31. Freeman, Frederick, CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM, (Cambridge: The Riverside Press) 1878.
Running account of relations between Indians and white men from 1620 to the end of King Philip’s War. Ethnographic information is nonexistent; however, a general picture of Indian-English relationships as they unfolded can be gained.
32. Gookin, Daniel, “Historical Collections of the Indians in New England,” MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS, Series 1, Vol I, 1792.