This volume contains twenty-five of the papers presented at the Seventh Algonquian conference. Topics covered in the papers include recently discovered linguistic fragments of Ocanahowan, the Wittiko people, ethno-history and archeology of the Mushuan, color terms in Narragansett, the Christian holidays of the Wabanaki, dialects of the Eastern Ojibwa-Odawa, historic populations of northwestern Ontario, Cree myths, unspecified-subject phenomena in Algonquian, southern New England shamanism, the coding of role information in Ojibwa, physical anthropology in northwestern Ontario, Eastern Abnaki shamanism, the role of warfare among the Southern Algonquians, lexical symbolization and phonological processes in Delaware, a comparison of traditional Cree, acculturated Cree and Euro-Canadian values in children, Montagnais dialectology, the Proto-Algonquian Urheimat, developing an orthography for Micmac, territorial distribution of the Western Woods Cree, Algonquian languages in Indian education, style in social relationships, and the seventeenth-century Wabanaki Sagamores. (CLK)