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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family
"On June 25, 1876, at age 29, he died at the battle of “Little Big Horn” in Montana under the command of William Armstrong Custer. Approximately 265…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance
"Early Performance The Indian Village, Bar Harbor, ca. 1909Jesup Memorial Library Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited
"Works Cited Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. Indian Place Names of the Penobacot Valley and the Maine Coast. Orono: The University Press, 1941."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"In 1780, an Indian named Pierpole moved to the area that is now Strong. His wife was Hannah Susup, and they had six children: Molly Pierpole, Molly…"
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"An example of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial…"
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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…"
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"… was just becoming structured enough so that Indian deeds and title were only recognized as making it possible for European settlers—and European…"
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"… in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian Quartertly 42, no.4 (2018): 454-487 muse.jhu.edu/article/708887 (retrieved August 2022)."
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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."
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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."
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"For Maine proprietors, “Indian deeds” signed with Native peoples in the seventeenth century became an important element of the argument."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder
"Like Jay Leno or Jon Stewart who entertain today’s audiences with a clever mixture of farce and facts, he was an Indian showman for his time."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4
"… Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Mi’kmaq and Penobscot Indians, were members of the old Wabanaki Confederacy, the traditional adversaries of the Iroquois."
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"… frequented this region of Maine prior to the Indian Wars of 1725-26. The Malecite were known for their skill in dealing with the salt-water…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative
"… indicating the area on the Georges River as an Indian village still referred to as Segochet. After Captain Smith reported his discoveries, Prince…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church
"By the mid-1800s, the Penobscot Indians had been practicing Catholicism for years, after being converted by European settlers."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"Pierpole was an Indian that first discovered Strong. Pierpole fished a lot too. Trapping has always been popular in our area."
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"He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."
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"Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)."
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"… or Iroquois, tribes) negotiated with Indian Superintendent William Johnson at Johnson Hall in New York and even further west at Fort Niagara. The…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"… artichokes, which were well liked among the Indians. Summer - In the summer the Abenakis would travel to the coast to clam, fish, and collect…"
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"… Memorial Library 1700s 1754 – 1763 • Maine Indians forced north into eastern Maine during French and Indian War 1755 • British deport Acadians to…"
