Maine Memory Network

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"The extremely popular “Indian Village,” hosted by members by members of the Wabanaki community at Deering Oaks was a crowd and media favorite."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"The Indian Encampment Wabanaki family inside tent, Bar Harbor, ca. 1885Maine Historic Preservation Commission Rusticators were curious about…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes Indian encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s Adapted from an exhibit at the Abbe Museum ; narrative text by…"

Hudson Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Memorial Library 1700s 1754 – 1763 • Maine Indians forced north into eastern Maine during French and Indian War 1755 • British deport Acadians to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"By the mid-1800s, the Penobscot Indians had been practicing Catholicism for years, after being converted by European settlers."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"He was credited with having secured the neutrality of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians despite British efforts to enlist their support…"

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… Chesley moved to Lincoln in 1822 or 1823 on the Indian Trail that linked Old Town to Lincoln and many other cities in Maine as well."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… named Byron it was called Skillertown, a name the Indians had called it. It became incorporated in 1833 and was renamed Byron after the well known…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… paddle up the Penobscot River, walk the ancient Indian footpaths while fording the streams, or trek beside ox-drawn wagons over river ice."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXPLORE the history of Biddeford, Maine...

"EXPLORE the history of Biddeford, Maine... Our history is a rich tapestry of people, places, ideas and innovations."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Many Indian tribes in Maine were nomadic, traveling to the coast in the summer for fishing, stopping to plant crops in fertile lands along the way."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… who had fought with him during the French and Indian Wars in 1759 and again in putting down Shay’s Rebellion just the year before."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Co, 1975. Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine. By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 2 of 3

"The Presque Isle boys were named the Indians, but Dorothy cheered for the boys from Robinson. She liked the boys from there."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Township) was visited by the Anasagunticook Indians for the purposes of fishing salmon at the “Great Falls.” There is little evidence that there…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"… in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian Quartertly 42, no.4 (2018): 454-487 muse.jhu.edu/article/708887 (retrieved August 2022)."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Web. (Google Books) 1 Jan 2010. (N) "Maine Indian Tribes." Access Genealogy. Access Genealogy, n.d. Web. 1 Jan 2010."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… of unexpected yet related documents, such as “Indian captivity” depositions; documents pertaining to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"As the Wabanaki Tribal Nations in what is now Maine fought for sovereignty and self-determination in 2021-22, equal to the Tribes in Oklahoma and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"An example of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"The French and Indian wars were winding down. Maine’s Native Americans, the Abenakis, had been decimated by European disease."