555 research outputs found
Evidence of Jessakkidds at Machiasport
Jessakkidds are powerful and prestigious members of an Ojibiua religious society. Evidence of their appearance in eastern Maine - signaling anxiety among the Native peoples of the area - can be found in petroglyphs, etched in rock on the shores of Holmes Bay. In this article Roger B. Ray con nects the symbols in the Sprague-site petro glyphs with the turmoil at the end of the Laurentian Tradition way of life
Maine Indians’ Concept of Land Tenure
This article discusses what Maine indigenous peoples thought about their land before their way of life became altered by the Europeans
The Machiasport Petroglyphs
The article discusses the history of the study of the Machiasport Petroglyphs and theories of the origin of these petroglyphs
The Embden, Maine, Petroglyphs
This article discusses possible meanings of the petroglyphs found at Embden and their likeness to those found at Peterborough
Book Reviews
Review of the following book: Province and Court Records of Maine, Volume 6: The Court Records of York County, Maine, Province of Massachusetts Bay, January 1718-1719-October 1727 by Neal W. Allen, Jr., with introduction by Robert E. Moody
Book Reviews
Reviews of the following books: History of Parkman; Mainstream Democracy in Parkman, Maine, 1794-1969 by Roger C. Storms; History of the Town of Kennebunk from it\u27s Settlement to the Year 1785 by Edward E. Bourne; From Warren to the Sea, 1827- 1852 edited by Bertha K. Drewett and Arthur Spea
Book Reviews
Reviews of the following books: Go Free: The Antislavery Impulse in Maine, 1833-1855 by Edward O. Schriver; Prehistoric Peoples of Maine, A Maine State Museum Teacher\u27s Resource Unit edited by William H. Soul
Book Reviews
Reviews of the following books: Maine, Charles II and Massachusetts: Governmental Relationships in Early Northern New England by John G. Reid; The New England Indians by Keith C. Wilbu
Book Reviews
Reviews of the following books: A History of Maine: A Collection of Readings in the History of Maine 1600-1970 edited by Ronald F. Banks; Frederick J. Waugh, American Marine Painter by George R. Havens; Letters to Christopher Prince, 1855-1865 and Journals of Eliza Prince, 1859-1860 edited by Arthur P. Spea
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