Maine Memory Network

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…"

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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… people strove to incorporate settlers into their Indigenous cultural and economic systems, the settlers sought their signatures and consent of land…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… colonization, and settlement; relations with Indigenous peoples and Nations; and the economic, political, geographic, and social establishment of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… has excellent scholarly assessments of a vast number of individuals including many Indigenous people and borderland residents."

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

"This control sometimes overlaps with Indigenous people, as they are the holders of original agreements that colonizers often benefit from such as…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous peoples. European settlers made broad use if its natural resources, but the discovery by…"

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

"… of their ministers; material pertaining to Indigenous people (from which the name “Pejepscot” is derived); material concerning the voyage of George…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… of European and American supremacy over the Indigenous stewards of what is now Maine. The descendants of these Tribal Nations are found within our…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… Wabanaki and colonial New England economies, and Indigenous and White women were essential contributors to each."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… provincial officials, imperial authorities, Indigenous powers, and the colonial public, and to be cobbled together from grants, patents, and deeds…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… visited the Chief to discuss place names and indigenous knowledge. In September 29, 1796 James Sullivan, an agent for the United States, wanted to…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… to support the “theory” that native people were indigenous to Aroostook County. Proof is as close as a stroll along a local riverbank or lake…"

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

"… these tracts of land, often without a mention of Indigenous inhabitants or legacies. Belcher Noyes Copy of Dummer's Treaty, 1726Maine…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… of a critical time of contact between Indigenous people and European settlers; the role each collection plays in documenting Maine’s path to…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Acadian Archives

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