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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The beauty of the Penobscot and Kenduskeag Rivers, as first described by Champlain, is again seen as a vital part of the history, heritage, and…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"By the mid-1800s, the Penobscot Indians had been practicing Catholicism for years, after being converted by European settlers."

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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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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"The Indian Encampment Wabanaki family inside tent, Bar Harbor, ca. 1885Maine Historic Preservation Commission Rusticators were curious about…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited

"Works Cited Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. Indian Place Names of the Penobacot Valley and the Maine Coast. Orono: The University Press, 1941."

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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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Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… Chesley moved to Lincoln in 1822 or 1823 on the Indian Trail that linked Old Town to Lincoln and many other cities in Maine as well."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"In 1763 the French and Indian Wars ended with the Paris Peace Treaty which ensured the safety of settlers from attack."

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Hudson Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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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."

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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"John Susep played the bass horn in the Penobscot Band and the Indian Island Orchestra, gaining the nickname Johnny Basshorn."

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Music in Maine - MAKE

"Francis kapahse (sturgeon) drum, Indian Island, 2019Maine Historical Society Powwow Music Click to read Chris Sockalexis's story A powwow is a…"

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Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"The State of Maine finally extended Federal suffrage to the Penobscot Nation in 1955, where Lucy cast the first ballot."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Penobscot Chief Joseph Orono X The Penobscot and, to a lesser extent, Passamaquoddy were known visitors to Swan’s Island."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Arvida Hayford, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… staunch Democrat and was the Indian agent for the Penobscot Indians in the 1840s for several years. Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"Early Performance The Indian Village, Bar Harbor, ca. 1909Jesup Memorial Library Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"She recollects, “The Indians of the Penobscot Tribe . . . were always camping around the fresh water ponds…."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 6, pages 97-113

"Godfrey Hannibal Hamlin Indian Regatta Stephen Stanislaus Sebattis Saul Sebattis Solomon J. M. Sockalexis John Fransoway Mitchel Peol Susup Sappiel…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… parade and observances in Bangor, ten Penobscot Indians in five birchbark canoes engaged in a race on the Kenduskeag Stream."

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

"… rusticators’ club aspired to having their own Indian-made paddle and birchbark canoe, and many turned to proven experts from the Indian encampment…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"… in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian Quartertly 42, no.4 (2018): 454-487 muse.jhu.edu/article/708887 (retrieved August 2022)."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"For Maine proprietors, “Indian deeds” signed with Native peoples in the seventeenth century became an important element of the argument."

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

"… in what is now Maine, and led to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980. A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… however, still claimed the territory east of the Penobscot River and endeavored to make the Penobscot river their last opening to the sea and their…"