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

"… in what is now Maine, and led to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980. A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher…"

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… the “head of tide,” they came at last upon the Indian village they were seeking. Settlers were greeted warmly by the “gentle Abenaki” and were able…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - 1840 U.S. Census Questions

"… of wheat did you grow in 1839? Barley? Oats? Rye? Indian corn? Buck wheat? Potatoes? 5. How many pounds of wool? Hops? Wax? 6."

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…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"To early settlers she was familiarly known as Indian Jane, Jane the Indian or Jane Hannup. In 1651, Jane and her brother, as heirs of Wackwarreska…"

Norridgewock Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… to the writing of Anna Virgin Farrington, Indians from the Pennacook tribe had a camp on the mountain in back of what is known as the Ira Wing…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… parade and observances in Bangor, ten Penobscot Indians in five birchbark canoes engaged in a race on the Kenduskeag Stream."

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."

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"By the mid-1800s, the Penobscot Indians had been practicing Catholicism for years, after being converted by European settlers."

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…"

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

"… in the 1970s, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in 1980, and Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980; and recent…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"Anthropologists conducted research at the Indian encampment while stunningly wealthy capitalists focused on conspicuous socializing or devoted…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… Bar Harbor in the heyday of hotels, cottages and Indian encampments, 1886 Bird's-eye view maps like this 1886 panorama of Bar Harbor were popular…"

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

"The extremely popular “Indian Village,” hosted by members by members of the Wabanaki community at Deering Oaks was a crowd and media favorite."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… 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…"

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

"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."

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

"… of unexpected yet related documents, such as “Indian captivity” depositions; documents pertaining to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… Long before European settlement, the Sokokis Indians lived in what we know as Scarborough. They called it Owascoag, "land of much grass," because…"

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."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"In 1763 the French and Indian Wars ended with the Paris Peace Treaty which ensured the safety of settlers from attack."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… was little to support the theory that any band of Indians had ever been indigenous to Aroostook County, except perhaps after 1790 when white…"

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."