His book, A Praying People: Massachusetts Acculturation and the Failure of the Puritan Mission, 1600 ­ 1690 is due on bookshelves in May 1995. His article, “Can Systems Theory Explain Praying Indian Acculturation?” appears in the Proceedings of the 1993 Native American Studies Conference. He wishes to thank Nancy Schultz and members of the Faculty Writing Workshop at Salem State College for help in developing this article.