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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…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… QJ 282 V642.1 This book of hymns, written in both Passamaquoddy and English, depicts the Devil giving Native Americans rum and whiskey."

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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…"

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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…"

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Music in Maine - MAKE

"… communities, including Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki Nations, connects to storytelling, history, spirituality, dance…"

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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)."

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Music in Maine - HEAR

"Dwayne Tomah, a member of the Passamaquoddy Nation from Sipayik (Pleasant Point), discussed the importance of wax cylinder recordings made in 1890 by…"

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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…"

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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… Penobscot Nation’s touring Penobscot Band; the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Indian Band; the Franco Fanfare Sainte-Cecile in Lewiston; and the…"

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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…"

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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."

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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…"

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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…"

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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…"

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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…"

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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."

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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…"

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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."

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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…"

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

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

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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."

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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…"

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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…"

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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."