Keywords: Indigenous peoples
Item 105027
Lucy Nicolar and Mary Ranco, Indian Island, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Old Town Media: Ink on paper
Item 14423
Contributed by: Abbe Museum Date: circa 1970 Location: Indian Township Media: Ash, sweetgrass, dye
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Penobscot mocassins
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part I," about telling stories through Indigenous clothing, featuring an essay by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune (Penobscot.)
Exhibit
Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art
Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.
Site Page
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…"
Site Page
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…"
Story
Epidemic of violence against Indigenous people
by Michael-Corey F. Hinton
Systemic racism, murder, and the danger of stereotypes
Story
Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw
Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the fur trade in Maine with a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, on how fashion influenced that trade, and how that trade impacted Indigenous peoples and the environment.
Lesson Plan
Wabanaki Studies: Stewarding Natural Resources
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce elementary-grade students to the concepts and importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), taught and understood through oral history to generations of Wabanaki people. Students will engage in discussions about how humans can be stewards of the local ecosystem, and how non-Native Maine citizens can listen to, learn from, and amplify the voices of Wabanaki neighbors to assist in the future of a sustainable environment. Students will learn about Wabanaki artists, teachers, and leaders from the past and present to help contextualize the concepts and ideas in this lesson, and learn about how Wabanaki youth are carrying tradition forward into the future.
