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Salt, Vol. 4, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 Indian Island On a small island in Maine’s Penobscot River live 400 Indians of the Penobscot nation. Some of them want to join the white man's world and some look to the traditions of the past.
• 4 ‘We Don’t Make Baskets Any More’ Madas Sapiel is an elder of the Penobscots whose life has spanned five generations of changes on Indian Island. She is a strong minded woman who admonishes her people to shape up and seek “unity.”
• 17 Bobcat and the Governor Two of Madas’ sons illustrate divergent paths the Penobscots are taking. Bobcat looks to the …