Maine Memory Network

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

"… War (1756–1763) ended the possibility of credible Indigenous military resistance to colonization. The Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors, like most…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"These acts incorporated settlers into existing Indigenous economic and social systems. In a similar deed, the Wabanaki leader Warrabitta, known also…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… colonization, and settlement; relations with Indigenous peoples and Nations; and the economic, political, geographic, and social establishment of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"Pawling have argued about the Indigenous past in the cross-border region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… well as the final line of 1842 The sundering of Indigenous Homelands, which are not depicted on the map, remains potent and poses ongoing…"

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

"This control sometimes overlaps with Indigenous people, as they are the holders of original agreements that colonizers often benefit from such as…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous peoples. European settlers made broad use if its natural resources, but the discovery by…"

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

"… Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian Quartertly 42, no.4…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"… location, diplomatic access to a vast network of Indigenous powers, and timber aplenty to boost Britain’s naval superiority."

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

"… of their ministers; material pertaining to Indigenous people (from which the name “Pejepscot” is derived); material concerning the voyage of George…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… European expansion exacerbated tensions between Indigenous populations and frontier settlers. A significant distance from Boston, Mainers relied on…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… Wabanaki and colonial New England economies, and Indigenous and White women were essential contributors to each."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… provincial officials, imperial authorities, Indigenous powers, and the colonial public, and to be cobbled together from grants, patents, and deeds…"

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

"… of European and American supremacy over the Indigenous stewards of what is now Maine. The descendants of these Tribal Nations are found within our…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… visited the Chief to discuss place names and indigenous knowledge. In September 29, 1796 James Sullivan, an agent for the United States, wanted to…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"While indigenous tribes resided in areas across the region for centuries before, Maine was settled by Europeans in the first half of the 17th century…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… of a critical time of contact between Indigenous people and European settlers; the role each collection plays in documenting Maine’s path to…"

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

"… these tracts of land, often without a mention of Indigenous inhabitants or legacies. Belcher Noyes Copy of Dummer's Treaty, 1726Maine…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… the theory that any band of Indians had ever been indigenous to Aroostook County, except perhaps after 1790 when white settlers along southern…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… American Indians to draw public attention to indigenous customs in costumed performances. Like Jay Leno or Jon Stewart who entertain today’s…"

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