Abenaki (Eastern Algonquian)

• Gordon M. Day, Western Abenaki Dictionary. Volume 1: Abenaki-English. Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper 128. 538 pp. $60 (CDN). --- The first volume in Day's monumental dictionary of Western Abenaki (spoken by the St. Francis Indians of Odanak, Quebec, and the Missisquoi Bay region of Lake Champlain). The usual front matter is followed by a list of selected roots, and then about 12,000 main entries arranged alphabetically. The second volume (English-Abenaki) will follow soon, and a volume of Western Abenaki texts has been announced. (From Algonquian & Iroquoian Linguistics 19(3), 1994.) --- Order from: Mail Order Services, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 100 rue Laurier, C.P. 3100, Hull, Québec. [Oct. 1994]