Keywords: French language
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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands
"… in 1907, at a time when preserving the French language in oral and written forms was important for passing cultural traditions to the next…"
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Music in Maine - Community Music
"… designated me a Master Artist in traditional French Canadian dance, providing the chance to pass the French dance traditions down to numerous…"
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"… recorded the oral histories and songs in Wabanaki languages including Abenaki, Passamaquoddy/Maliseet, Penobscot, and Mi’kmaq languages."
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"… Passamaquoddy peoples singing and speaking their language into the bell, etching them on cylinders made of ceresin, beeswax, and stearic wax."
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Music in Maine - Music Education
"Music helps the body and the mind work together, and musical experiences in childhood can accelerate brain development, especially in language…"
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Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music
"Longfellow Family Music “Music is the universal language of humankind.” --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre Mer, 1835 Henry Wadsworth…"
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"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"… for example, has maintained their Maliseet language so that this region is known as the only place on earth where the Maliseet language is spoken…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry
"The language and customs of three countries—Sweden, France and England—were subsequently all absorbed into the community."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm
"Stockholm was a tri–cultural town with languages and customs of three countries: Sweden, France, and England."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School
"… for low socio-economic status; Offer a foreign language to at least eighth graders - - Strong offers modern French to grades K-8; Enjoy a 95…"
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"… region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested in their sovereignty and…"
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"… treaties gradually tried to make sense of its language starting with the Jay Treaty (1794). This authorized the St."
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901
"… where he taught at Harvard, directed the Modern Language program there, and wrote poetry. His first wife had died of a miscarriage and in 1843 he…"
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"… means “pollock plenty place” in the tribal language. Colonel John Allan's cenotaph, Treat's Island, 1970Lubec Memorial Library Later settlers…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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