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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca. 1890Abbe Museum In the olden days, from about 1860 to 1900, I well remember that Indian encampments were the…"

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…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes Indian encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"Wabanaki Today Wabanaki Today The Indian encampments are no longer part of the cultural or physical makeup of Mount Desert Island; however the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Place Names and Continuance Plan for towns along the Androscoggin River, ca."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"Beginning in the 1950s, Wabanaki people, often led by those who had fought for the United States in wars starting in the 1940s, began a new era of…"

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

"A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher, July 1732Maine Historical Society Today, the State of Maine is much like the local…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Essay by Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Fall 2022 Lisa Brooks (Missisquoi Abenaki) Henry S."

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

"As the Wabanaki Tribal Nations in what is now Maine fought for sovereignty and self-determination in 2021-22, equal to the Tribes in Oklahoma and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"(N, A, C, S) "Wabanaki Timeline." Abbe Museum. Abbe Museum. Web. 1 Jan 2010. (N) Westpoint Pepperell: Biddeford Operations - Consumer Products…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"1870Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine Biddeford's earliest inhabitants have many names. Wabanaki/Abenaki, or "People of the Dawn", is the generic term…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"… at: Asticou's Island Domain Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920s, by Bunny McBride and Harald E…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"Without acknowledged Indian deeds of their own, the Kennebec Company came to the opposite conclusion."

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

"Guiding Services for Sport Hunters Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments…"

Music in Maine - MAKE

"Music and colonialism Europeans began settling in Wabanaki Homelands about 400 years ago, incorporating music into religious conversion in attempts…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

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

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

"Most Wabanakis had third class tickets. Travel fares were sometimes reimbursed by Indian agents who controlled the tribes’ annual budget of…"

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 - Activities for Rusticators

"… the Improved Order of Red Men Society? Visit the Wabanaki encampment and meet real Indians? Mount Desert Reading RoomJesup Memorial Library…"

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

"In an era of Wabanaki power, they sought out Native leaders who might endorse that interpretation of their Indian deeds, and they brandished these…"

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"1900Abbe Museum Theatrically mixing authentic Wabanaki cultural history with invented traditions, Loring was among the first American Indians to…"

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…"

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."