Maine Memory Network

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… Shenandoah, which took them from Bar Harbor to Passamaquoddy Bay, to Mt. Katahdin, Moosehead Lake, Rangley Lake, as well as various other locations…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"Clara and Rocky Keezer, Passamaquoddy, selling their baskets at the Native American Festival, 2010. (Photo by Dee Lustusky) X Wabanaki dancers…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The men went deep sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals. Fall/Winter - Before the frosts came, the women and children went into the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"We think it hard that you settle the lands that God gave us without making us some consideration. -Passamaquoddy Chief Abowadwonit (1763)."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"Louis Mitchell of the Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians will have during the season, at the shore between Suminsby’s and Steamboat Wharf, Bar Harbor, a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… most of the Native tribes including the Wabanaki, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot, into poverty. A substantial class gradient emerged, with natives at…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… Commission Rusticators were curious about the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot families who encamped every summer at Bar Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"Wabanaki Indians (especially Passamaquoddies and Penobscots) came to Mount Desert Island seeking relief from the confines of reservation life, along…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"Passamaquoddy group at Pleasant Point, 1906Nylander Museum Most Wabanakis were Catholic. While in Bar Harbor, some went daily or weekly to Mass at…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… the place they later called Pemetic (pemotonet in Passamaquoddy), which translates to “range of mountains.” Rising sea levels over the past 10,000…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… particular early on, consistently highlight Passamaquoddy and wider Wabanaki Nations’ deep knowledge of the land with European confusion…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… established which of the rivers that flowed into Passamaquoddy Bay was actually the St. Croix intended in 1783."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Resources

"… Swan's Island Historical Society "Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation Department." Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Holiday Events

"Holiday Events Warmer weather combined with national or local holidays brought islanders together for celebrations."

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

"… of Wabanaki Nations in Maine: Penobscot and Passamaquoddys in the 1970s, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in 1980, and Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… History Text by Jennifer Multhopp Pre-1700s • Passamaquoddy encampments in North Lubec – shell middens found on South Bay and Mill Creek."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… of course, with Wabanaki Nations, especially the Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) Maliseet (Wolastoqey), and Micmac (Mi’kmaq), whose Homelands were…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"… Society The Improved Order of Red Men was a national fraternal organization that became popular on Swan's Island in the early 1900s."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"The nation turned to coal, iron, and oil. Maine’s decreased role in the national trend toward industrial growth would later become an attraction when…"

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

"… as loyalists, loggers, and others converged on Passamaquoddy Bay but disagreed over where Maine ended and New Brunswick began."

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

"This is like the outcome of the Passamaquoddy v. Morton case from 1975, which forced the Federal government into protecting Wabanaki land interests…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… drew its earliest inhabitants, members of the Passamaquoddy tribe, who made seasonal encampments at Seward’s Neck (North Lubec) during the spring…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"This term probably included the current Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Nations. They called the Mikmaqs Souriquois, and the English called…"