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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

"The documents produced by the border commission, particular early on, consistently highlight Passamaquoddy and wider Wabanaki Nations’ deep knowledge…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"Charles Dorr. On that same steamer, a Wabanaki canoe maker was carrying a fleet of bark canoes that he would rent to Bar Harbor's burgeoning tourist…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"As for Wabanakis, some followed tradition, paddling age-old canoe routes. Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… also shaped Massachusetts relations with Wabanaki Nations, both by their actions on the Maine frontier, and their influence within Massachusetts…"

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

"Other agreements had been signed by Wabanakis who sought to establish ongoing relationships with English newcomers, and whose own notions of…"

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

"… uncertainty, conflict, and negotiation among Wabanaki, French, Acadian, British, and US individuals and groups over several centuries."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… the time were under de jure French and de facto Wabanaki political control—was decidedly more provisional."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… forced most of the Native tribes including the Wabanaki, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot, into poverty."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… Village,” hosted by members by members of the Wabanaki community at Deering Oaks was a crowd and media favorite."

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

"… Abiding Frontier: Gender, Family, and Religion in Wabanaki History, 1600-1763” (PhD diss, Columbia University 1997), 148-199."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"A series of Anglo-Wabanaki wars, instigated by settler incursions and the proprietors’ own belligerence, soured many potential migrants on Maine."

Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Wabanaki songs reaching back 13,000 years are distinct from Franco chansons. Lumberjack work chants and sailor shanties differ from operas sung by…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… Loring, Penobscot, (1827-1906) was a leader among Wabanakis who commercialized their public identities to make a living."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… both French-speakers in the Madawaska region and Wabanaki individuals, Tribes, and Nations, continue to suffer the repercussions of not conforming…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… this three-part movement is rooted in ancient Wabanaki music and was the first collaboration between a Wabanaki person and the Bangor Symphony…"

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

"His family traded with Wabanakis who canoed to the area to fish, trap, and hunt as they always had. Abraham’s son John recalled that during his…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"1910Great Harbor Maritime Museum Most Wabanakis who came to Mount Desert avoided the confines of indoor work, but Theodore Bear Mitchell spent many…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"… Mind: Becoming Maine (2020), Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art (2019), Designing Acadia (2017), World War I and the…"

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

"… precious glimpses into deeply human stories: how Wabanaki and European peoples sought to survive, to thrive, to secure their visions for the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… collapsed so quickly and immediately that the Wabanaki inhabitants of the region could be forgiven for barely considering them."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… interactions, and diplomatic relationships with Wabanaki people; Massachusetts colonial governance; and, international relations, land speculation…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… Abbe Museum is to inspire new learning about the Wabanaki Nations with every visit. College of the Atlantic X College of the Atlantic, Bar…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… two tracts of land in Maine, one from the Wabanaki and one from an English colonist. For such women, land represented an important source of wealth…"