Keywords: Native Americans
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Site Pages
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"… and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested in their sovereignty and the imposition of the…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3
"… beauty,” Crosby’s affectionate nickname for native brook trout, in Mt. Blue Stream. Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women
"… Anne Chase Akers Allen Another interesting Strong native was Elizabeth Anne Chase, born in Strong, October 9, 1832."
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"… was especially practiced by the Ainu, Inuit, Native Americans and people of the Bay of Biscay. Rock carvings have shown several whales being…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"… Edmund Muskie Those crazy Coke and Mentos guys Native Americans—in this case the Abenakis—flourished in the western foothills for millennia before…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"It is unclear when the Native Americans first came to the area they referred to as the “great intervale”."
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"There, he encountered French traders and Native Americans and promptly chased them off. His company then sailed to the larger island of Islesboro…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959
"The program included a life-size nativity scene, and a stage for nightly performances. On the podium with the President for the lighting were: Mrs."
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"… after John Neptune, Governor of the Penobscot Native American tribe. The steamboat was owned by the Penobscot Navigation Company."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4
"So plentiful were lobsters that Native-Americans used them for crop fertilizer and fish bait, as well as food for themselves; early settlers…"
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Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2
"A native of New Brunswick, she enrolled in Madigan Memorial School of Nursing in Houlton in 1937 before taking vows in the Sisters of Mercy in 1944."
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Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church
"The Native Americans were the first recorded people to have the religious faith of Catholicism in this area."
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"Perhaps F.B. Foss, a native of Surry, summarized the town's economic downturn best in two verses of a poem he wrote for the 1903 Centennial: Old…"
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"… M., Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830 – 1890, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… seasonally in the area of Bath, no permanent Native American villages occupied the site. And, no settlements resulted from early European…"
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Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School
"Web. 11 Apr 2013. Young, Susan. "Hailing a native son Bangor to rename middle school after Cohen." Bangor Daily News. 9 Dec 1997. Web."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… and small boats, following the example of Native Americans. People traveled by streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and long tidal estuaries and bays."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"… very fond of the woods and enjoyed studying the native plants, flowers, and wildlife. Presque Isle Historical Society Arthur Gould passed…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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