Keywords: Somali community
Item 102760
"Many and One" shirt, Lewiston, 2004
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2004-01-10 Location: Lewiston Media: Cotton
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Story
Somali Bantu farmers put down roots in Maine
by Muhidin D. Libah
Running the Somali Bantu Community Association and finding food security in Maine