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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"Wabanaki Today Wabanaki Today The Indian encampments are no longer part of the cultural or physical makeup of Mount Desert Island; however the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki… Wabanaki encampment, ca. 1000 BCEAbbe Museum Nearly 500 years ago, Wabanakis spotted the first…"

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

"Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca. 1890Abbe Museum In the olden days, from about 1860 to 1900, I well remember that Indian encampments were the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… the State of Maine in 1820, but where we, as Wabanaki Nations and people, remain in our greater homeland, Ckuwapohnakiyik."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… significant change such as federal recognition of Wabanaki Nations in Maine: Penobscot and Passamaquoddys in the 1970s, Houlton Band of Maliseet…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"In the 1970s, to make clear they did not want a 'nation within a nation,' leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like…"

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

"For Wabanaki Nations, the Federal government is surely a better bet than the State, but it is no less beholden by its own sense of superiority and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"… More If you would like to learn more about the Wabanaki on and around Mount Desert Island, here are several resources."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… Abbe Museum is to inspire new learning about the Wabanaki Nations with every visit. College of the Atlantic X College of the Atlantic, Bar…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… Loring, Penobscot, (1827-1906) was a leader among Wabanakis who commercialized their public identities to make a living."

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

"… Illustrated Newspaper, 8/23/1884 Life behind Wabanaki sale tents was at least as lively as it was in front of and within them especially for those…"

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

"The state of Maine invited European and Asian allied nations to join the festivities, with an opportunity to demonstrate newly formed and established…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"Guiding Services for Sport Hunters Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Wabanaki encampment, ca. 1000 BCEAbbe Museum While great change came to the Wabanaki on and around MDI over the next several hundred years, they are…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"Charles Dorr. On that same steamer, a Wabanaki canoe maker was carrying a fleet of bark canoes that he would rent to Bar Harbor's burgeoning tourist…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"As for Wabanakis, some followed tradition, paddling age-old canoe routes. Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"(N, A, C, S) "Wabanaki Timeline." Abbe Museum. Abbe Museum. Web. 1 Jan 2010. (N) Westpoint Pepperell: Biddeford Operations - Consumer Products…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… forced most of the Native tribes including the Wabanaki, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot, into poverty."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Wabanaki deed to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors formed in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"His family traded with Wabanakis who canoed to the area to fish, trap, and hunt as they always had. Abraham’s son John recalled that during his…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"1910Great Harbor Maritime Museum Most Wabanakis who came to Mount Desert avoided the confines of indoor work, but Theodore Bear Mitchell spent many…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"1870Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine Biddeford's earliest inhabitants have many names. Wabanaki/Abenaki, or "People of the Dawn", is the generic term…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"Although the Wabanaki Nations remained a formidable power until the 1760s—their strength augmented by French support from Québec and Acadia—the…"