Keywords: Indian
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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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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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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates
"… Harbor to Northeast Harbor to see the Pemetic Indians take on Gilman at Neighborhood House. They would journey to Bar Harbor to see their town’s…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast
"… the 1750’s the British won the third French and Indian War. The French, however, still claimed the territory east of the Penobscot River and…"
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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"… and succotash and pemmican (no hide) were popular Indian dishes. After construction of crude log shacks, the people soon built good frame houses."
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"… they could more easily protect themselves from Indians. A majority finally won out and they hoisted sail, turning eastward, settling in in…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4
"… Township) was visited by the Anasagunticook Indians for the purposes of fishing salmon at the “Great Falls.” There is little evidence that there…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"… granted to them for service in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution. Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine."
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Westport Island History Committee
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"… 1794, an essential legal precedent for the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1980. St."
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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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"They included the Asticou Inn (1883), Indian Head (1887), Kimball House (1886), Rock End Hotel (1884), Roberts House (1883), Harbourside Inn (1889)…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… The first “roads” were not really roads but Indian footpaths through the woods. Generally the trails followed firm ground rather than a direct…"
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"He was credited with having secured the neutrality of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians despite British efforts to enlist their support…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
"… from David Hutchins were a group of Norridgewock Indians, led by Chief Pierpole. The records show that the few interactions between the two groups…"
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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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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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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… paupers, persons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed.” Josiah Farrow represented Islesboro at the convention."