Keywords: Treaty negotiations
Item 6643
Webster-Ashburton Treaty cartoon, Fort Kent, ca. 1842
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1842 Location: Fort Kent Media: Pen and ink on paper
Item 7752
Treaty of Portsmouth, Sept. 5, 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905-09-05 Location: Kittery Media: Postcard
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.
Exhibit
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
Site Page
"A printed map from the treaty year gives some sense of the sharp differences of opinion about where the border should run as it shows proposed…"
Site Page
"Attempts to reopen negotiations came to an undeniable halt in 1833, and, thus, fifty years after the War of American Independence had ended, the…"
