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Indians at the Centennial

Wabanaki man, Portland, 1920

Wabanaki man, Portland, 1920

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Governor Neptune told the local newspaper that 65 years earlier, Indians hunted and fished and did not have to make baskets to sell to make a living. "White people have stripped us from top to bottom."