Keywords: Refugee settlement
Item 102760
"Many and One" shirt, Lewiston, 2004
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 2004-01-10
Location: Lewiston
Media: Cotton
This record contains 4 images.
Item 9305
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1684
Location: Brunswick
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 2 images.
Exhibit
Pigeon's Mainer Project: who decides who belongs?
Street artist Pigeon's artwork tackles the multifaceted topic of immigration. He portrays Maine residents, some who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants—people who are often marginalized through state and federal policies—to ask questions about the dynamics of power in society, and who gets to call themselves a “Mainer.”
Exhibit
Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.
Site Page
"… had been dramatically disrupted when loyalist refugees, including commission officials like Pagan, established the town of St."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"Algonquin speaking refugees from English areas of southern New England fled northward and enlarged villages on the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers."
