Keywords: Maine Indian
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Site Pages
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"A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher, July 1732Maine Historical Society Today, the State of Maine is much like the local…"
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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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"… for this land, some New Englanders said that “Indian deeds” were a valid form of title on their own, rather than a necessary addition to the…"
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"… title to the same tract, seventeenth-century Indian deeds often described vague boundaries. So, too, did the other potential sources of legal…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast
"… the 1750’s the British won the third French and Indian War. The French, however, still claimed the territory east of the Penobscot River and…"
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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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"… that ownership was made not through royal seals, Indian deeds, or any deeds at all, but instead through possession—applying one’s labor to improve…"
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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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"… in 1980, and Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980; and recent legislative victories during 2021-2022 supporting…"
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"3- 26 2. “‘A Scratch with a Bear's Paw’: Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-256) 3. Richardson, H."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery
"… the same early records who was buried "near the Indian Camping Ground" which may have been south of Parker Point near what was referred to as…"
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"They included the Asticou Inn (1883), Indian Head (1887), Kimball House (1886), Rock End Hotel (1884), Roberts House (1883), Harbourside Inn (1889)…"
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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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"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."
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"… 1794, an essential legal precedent for the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1980. St."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3
"… Jonathan Buck in 1779 that dogs owned by the indians were "running his sheep into the ocean." He said he lived alone on the island, but evidently…"
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"… 5th Maine Infantry, 6th Maine Infantry, 7th Maine Infantry 8th Main Infantry, 9th Maine Infantry, 10th Maine Infantry, 12th Maine Infantry, 13th…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks
"… England And of course, the amazing staff at the Maine Community Heritage Project and the Maine Memory Network--Larissa, Kathy, Fran, Rachel…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - CONTACT
"… HERITAGE PROJECT c/o McArthur Public Library 270 Main Street Biddeford, Maine 04005 U.S.A. BY EMAIL: reference@mcarthur.lib.me.us *Please include…"
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"In the urban areas of Maine, ethnic tensions and nativist hatreds rose through the 1920's, and in 1924 the Ku Klux Klan claimed 50,000 members in…"
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"The French called the ethnic group of southwestern Maine “Armouchiquois“, but the tribes often referred to themselves by their family band name."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXHIBITS
"By Paige S. Pandora, University of Southern Maine CITIES OF SMOKE AND SOOT An introduction to Biddeford and Saco's tumultuous fire history."
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"… called nationally for volunteers, requiring Maine to raise one regiment of infantry for three months of Federal service."
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"… Historical Society During the Civil War, Maine laborers worked in logging, milling, papermaking, built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined…"