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White (Robert H.) Collection, 1987-1990, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Robert H. White Collection contains notes, interview tapes and a microcassette recorder pertaining to Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Maliseet language and cultural materials. Also includes notes from White's book: Tribal Assets.

Buesing (Gregory) Papers, 1950-1982, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Born in 1947, Gregory Buesing has worked professionally in public service, non-profit management, fundraising, advocacy, and law. He received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, an MBA from the University of Maine at Orono, and a JD from Northeastern University School of Law, and is a former member of the Massachusetts and California bars.

Buesing began working for the Passamaquoddy at Pleasant Point in 1967 on a volunteer project. After working for or with tribes in various capacities, he served on the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights at the time of …

Smith (Nicholas N.) Papers, 1879-2019, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Nicholas Smith was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1926. He attended the University of Maine from 1946 to 1950 and receiving his BA in American History. He later attended Columbia University for his MA in Medieval/European history. Smith was passionate about the conservation of Native American history and the rights of the communities he worked closely with for well over 50 years.

While working with several of the tribes in Maine and the surrounding areas he was able to compile the largest computerized bibliography of the Wabanaki peoples (WABIB). The WABIB has the most complete source of materials pertaining to …

Umaine Office For Diversity And Inclusion_The Power Of A Story Email, University Of Maine Office For Diversity And Inclusion

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Email from the UMaine Office for Diversity and Inclusion with various details of the Office's work and specific events related to Native American Heritage Month.

Wabanaki Youth In Science (Ways) Wskitkamikw "Earth" Camp Application, Wabanaki Center, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

WaYS is a long-term program to engage Wabanaki students (grades 6-12) through their cultural heritage and environmental legacy to encourage and promote persistence in sciences through college and into a career. Innovative and unique, WaYS engages students in a year-long multi pronged program through a one-week summer Earth Camp, year-long internships/mentorships for high school students; and year-long Traditional Ecological Knowledge programs through Teen Centers or tribal Boys/Girls Clubs. Critical for success, it provides each student with mentoring from both cultural knowledge-keepers and natural resource professionals.

November News, 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

In recognition of National Native American Heritage Month, Wabanaki REACH promotes educational programs and resources intended to support truth, healing, and change.

Umaine Office For Diversity And Inclusion_Doing The Work This Native American Heritage Monthemail, University Of Maine Office For Diversity And Inclusion

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Email from the UMaine Office for Diversity and Inclusion with various details of the Office's work and events related to Native American Heritage Month.

Educational Resources Literary Resource List, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

A list of literary resources presented on the Dawnland Signals show, "Wabanaki Authors" on May 20, 2021. The list includes a selection of Indigenous childrens' books.

Wabanaki Reach Public Events, Fall 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Event descriptions, dates, and times for Fall 2021 Wabanaki REACH programming.

September News, 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

A Conversation with Skutik Riverkeepers. Voices of Decolonization, Restoring the Stream of Life in Our Rivers. "Part 2: The Skutik."

Grandmother's Love and Community Water Justice programs support community families.

To Know The Land With Hands And Minds: Negotiating Agricultural Knowledge In Late-Nineteenth-Century New England And Westphalia, Justus Hillebrand

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Ever since the eighteenth century, experts have tried to tell farmers how to farm. The agricultural enlightenment in Europe marked the beginning of a long arc of new experts aiming to change agricultural knowledge and practice. This dissertation analyzes the pivotal period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Germany and the United States when scientists, improvers, and market agents began to develop comprehensive ways to communicate agricultural innovation to farmers. In a functional approach to analyzing the negotiation of agricultural knowledge through its communication in things, words, and practices, this dissertation argues that the process of change …

August News, 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

The seasonal return of the Wabanaki REACH monthly newsletter.

Wabanaki Reach Newsletter, Summer 2021, Wabanaki Reach, Maria Girouard

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Two new Wabanaki REACH board members, Janet Lola and Barbara Kates, are introduced in this edition of the newsletter, as well as new Administrative Assistant, Jillian Kerr; and Kate Russell, project coordinator for the truth-telling initiative focused on Maine Indian land claims. Headlines include:

• A Time for Renewal
• Welcome to the Team!
• Wabanaki Youth Circles
• A Profile of the Artist: James Michael Manley
• Mawita’nej Epij’iji — A Wabanaki Community Garden Project
• Woliwon — Woliwoni — Walalin — Thank You

May News, 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Featured blog post Voices of Decolonization, Restoring the Stream of Life in Our Rivers, by Diane Oltarzewski, "Part 1: The Kennebec Rivers are the Veins of Our Mother."

Black Lives: Not A Single Story, Jane Horovitz

Honors College

This thesis explores depictions of Black lives in America through consideration of journalism, along with novels and plays by 20th-and 21st-century African American writers. It looks, in particular, at Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel Americanah and her famous TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story.” In the latter, she warns against telling a single story about Africans, one that often involves pain, trauma, and poverty; Adichie’s warning is also especially relevant to a critique of stereotypical conceptualizations of African American suffering. Americanah provides a new Black narrative and a new definition of Blackness, one that tells a …

Legalizing Marijuana Is The Only Just Past Forward, Leah Savage

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Tuesday was April 20, or 4/20, so here’s a friendly reminder in light of the holiday; Barack Obama smoked marijuana, and he isn’t a degenerate, he was the 44thpresident of the United States. Marijuana has been legalized in 16 states as well as Washington, D.C., and there are numerous studies showing that marijuana is, at thevery least, just as safe as alcohol. So why are over 40,000 Americans still incarcerated for marijuana-related charges?

April News, 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Wabanaki REACH Grandmother's Love assistance program continues to provide low-barrier financial assistance to community members.

Honors College_Tribal Sovereignity, Social Justice, And Building Equity From A Maine Tribal Perspective, University Of Maine Honors College

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Poster for the University of Maine Honors College and Native American Programs co-sponsored lecture from Maulian Dana, Tribal Ambassador for the Penobscot Nation, as part of the 2021 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics.

Educational Resources Land Acknowledgements: Resources For Learning And Teaching, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

List of web-based resources to promote understanding of Indigenous land and territorial acknowledgement and its role in restorative justice.

Educational Resources Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act Of 1980: Resources For Continued Learning, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980: Resources for Continued Learning contains a bibliography and links to writings related to the 1980 Maine Indian Land Claims Act. Resources date from 1829 to 2020 and are continually updated.

Educational Resources For Truth, Healing, And Change In Wabanaki Territory, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Resources for Truth, Healing, and Change in Wabanaki Territory provides a bibliography of resources created by Wabanaki people from the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Ojibwe-Cree, Maliseet, Wampanoag, and Mi'kmaw nations.

March News, 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Wabanaki REACH welcomes new board member Nolan Altvater.

February News, 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Wabanaki REACH monthly email newsletter promoting the Voices of Decolonization.

January News, 2021, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Wabanaki REACH launches a new brand look.

Wabanaki Reach Newsletter, Winter 2021, Wabanaki Reach, Maria Girouard

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

Executive Director Maria Girouard welcomes in the New Year with the newsletter's new look. Headlines in this issue include:

• Woli pili k’ton! Happy New Year!
• Beginning the new year with a new look!
• REACH Welcomes Our Newest Board Member!
• Truth Telling
• REACH Online Interactive Educational Programs
• Summer Reading for Young Ones
• National Conference Activities
• Woliwon — Woliwoni — Walalin — Thank You

Educational Resources Historical Timeline Of Wabanaki-Maine Relations, Wabanaki Reach

Wabanaki REACH Newsletters

A partial, historical timeline of Wabanaki-Maine relations dating from 1095 with the declaration by Papal Bull Terra Nullius extending to European royalty permission to "discover" and colonize 'non-Christian' lands, to the Great Dying (1616-1619) when 75% of all Wabanaki people died of European diseases, to Governor Janet Mill's 2021 veto of a bill to permit Maine's Wabanaki nations to develop legalized gaming as an economic resource. Information provided originates from Wabanaki resources.

In Conversation With The Ancestors: Indigenizing Archaeological Narratives At Acadia National Park, Maine, Bonnie D. Newsom, Natalie D. Lolar, Isaac St. John

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

In North America, Indigenous pasts are publicly understood through narratives constructed by archaeologists who bring Western ideologies to bear on their inquiries. The resulting Eurocentric presentations of Indigenous pasts shape public perceptions of Indigenous peoples and influence Indigenous perceptions of self and of archaeology. In this paper we confront Eurocentric narratives of Indigenous pasts, specifically Wabanaki pasts, by centering an archaeological story on relationality between contemporary and past Indigenous peoples. We focus on legacy archaeological collections and eroding heritage sites in Acadia National Park, Maine. We present the “Red Paint People” myth as an example of how Indigenous pasts become …

Website Capture: Native American Programs, University Of Maine, Native American Studies Program

General University of Maine Publications

Through the Native American programs website, you can access information about Native American Studies, the Wabanaki Center, the Native American Tuition Waiver and Scholarship Program, and information about University of Maine programs that promote, support and provide educational opportunities for and about Wabanaki peoples across the State of Maine and beyond.

Photo Essay: State Of Mind: Becoming Maine, Maine Historical Society

Maine History

The separation from Massachusetts in 1820 had different meanings and implications for residents grounded in geography, culture, race, and economic standing. Understanding that the history of how Maine became a state is rooted in the stories of people, State of Mind: Becoming Maine focuses on four distinct communities—Wabanaki, Acadien French, Black, and English-speaking people all who have deep ties to the land now known as Maine. While multitudes of distinct cultural communities have, and continue to call Maine home, the Wabanaki have cared for this land for millennia. The French, Black, and English-speaking people have resided here since the early …

Book Reviews, Sean Cox, Eileen Hagerman, George Kotlik, Thomas Peace, Hannah Schmidt, Eric Toups

Maine History

Reviews of the following books: Historic Acadia National Park, The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures by Catherine Schmitt; Without Benefit of Insects: The Story of Edith M. Patch of the University of Maine by Elizabeth Gibbs; French and Indian Wars in Maine by Michael Dekker; Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat edited by Micah Pawling; The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright by Ann M. Little; Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War by Lisa Books