Keywords: American Indians
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Site Pages
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"… or Iroquois, tribes) negotiated with Indian Superintendent William Johnson at Johnson Hall in New York and even further west at Fort Niagara. The…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"… artichokes, which were well liked among the Indians. Summer - In the summer the Abenakis would travel to the coast to clam, fish, and collect…"
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"… Memorial Library 1700s 1754 – 1763 • Maine Indians forced north into eastern Maine during French and Indian War 1755 • British deport Acadians to…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… pioneers had seen hard service in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, had been inured to hardship, toil, and poverty, and fully realized…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links
"Bourque, Bruce J. Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine. By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers…"
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Westport Island History Committee
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"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers
"On another page of the ledger, Plosway is called ‘Indian Plosway’. We wonder why it was important to make note that Plosway was an Indian, but for…"
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"… of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians despite British efforts to enlist their support against the Americans."
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"The conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763 brought a brief era of peace to the region. Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the…"
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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"… paddle up the Penobscot River, walk the ancient Indian footpaths while fording the streams, or trek beside ox-drawn wagons over river ice."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"All thirty-nine ships in the American fleet were either captured, burned or scuttled. The Penobscot Expedition, as it came to be known, remained the…"