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Recognize Martin Luther King Day, Kathleen March

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Each academic year as January nears the University of Maine begins to think again about Martin Luther King, about the day officially designated to honor his life and teachings. Like several other national holidays, this one currently does not bring with it a day off from classes at this university. Several reasons have been cited for this: one is the academic year is already too short.

Christian Truth, Isaac J. Kimball

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The article "Suppressing minorities with religion," which appeared in Friday's Maine Campus, is based on stereotypes and ignorance.

Suppressing Minorities With Religion, Hillary Montgomery

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

While perusing the discussion folders in my FirstClass account recently, I happened upon the gender folder. For some odd reason, a number of files pertained to the subject of God and religion. Whatever the reason for using this folder to discuss such debated issues is no matter, rather the content of these messages really got me thinking.

Civil Rights Issues In Maine: A Briefing Summary On Hate Crimes, Racial Tensions, And Migrant/Immigrant Workers, United States Commission On Civil Rights, Maine Advisory Committee

Maine History Documents

A report prepared by the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in 1996. Major sections: Hate Crimes and Bias in Maine; Racial Tension and Educating Language Minority Youth; Migrant and Immigrant Workers.

A Source For Stowe's Ideas On Race In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Josephine Donovan

English Faculty Scholarship

Harriet Beecher Stowe's treatment of race in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and the colonization scheme with which she ends the novel have long been its most controversial features. Colonization was a term then in use for returning African Americans to Africa as a solution to the race/slavery problem. Stowe concludes Uncle Tom's Cabin by sending most of the surviving black characters—George, Eliza, their children, George's sister Emily, and Eliza's mother, Cassy to Africa where George dreams of founding a Christian republic. In a lengthy letter George explains his colonizationist ambitions: "On the shores of Africa I see a republic." "I …

Eastern Abenaki Autonomy And French Frustrations, 1745-1760, David L. Ghere

Maine History

Most Abenaki Indians became French allies between 1745 and 1760, but in effect it was English policy that ultimately drove them into this alliance. While the Western Abenakis were generally reliable allies, French officials were repeatedly frustrated by their limited influence over the Eastern Abenakis and by the restrained reaction of these Indians to English provocations. Eastern Abenakis became reluctant French allies.

Grandmother, Daughter, Princess, Squaw: Native American Female Stereotypes In Historical Perspective, Pauleena M. Macdougall

Maine History

One consequence of the English-Algonquin interaction was the development of certain female stereotypes. The Algonquin language term for female evolved into the English word “squaw” and assumed new meaning as it was applied to all Native American women. Similarly, the daughter of a tribal leader; married to a British man, acquired the attributes of European royalty, becoming a “princess. ”

Evidence Of Jessakkidds At Machiasport, Roger B. Ray

Maine History

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.

American Heritage Filled With Atrocities Vs. Native Americans, Art Dostie

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A friend of mine commented that upon seeing the IDB movie Soldier Blue, he wondered how such a disgusting movie could be presented to the public. I had to smile at this, realizing how sheltered our minds have been protected from the truth, and how today's civilization still clings to the great American myth.

"Listen White America" Commissioner Arricale Speaks, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"Listen White America, really listen for a change. You can go to war overnight, you can go to the moon almost overnight, and you'd better build a city overnight, because the ghetto Negroes are out on the streets now but I don't know where they will be tomorrow," Frank C. Arricale, New York City deputy housing commissioner, made this appear during his lecture, "The Long Hot Summer" Wednesday evening, May 1, in the Maine Lounge of the Memorial Union.

Women Of The Ku Klux Klan Donation Receipt, Women Of The Ku Klux Klan, Inc.

Paul W. Bean Civil War Papers

A receipt dated April 25, 1924, noting that Mrs. Elsie Madden donated five dollars to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., Realm of Maine. Signed by Flora L. Hothorne.

Digitized from Box 278, folder 1, of the Paul Bean Collection.

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Indian Place Names: Indian Names Of Some Of The Streams, Islands, Etc., On The Penobscot And St. John Rivers In Maine, Moses Greenleaf

Maine History Documents

Full title: Indian place names : Indian names of some of the streams, islands, etc., on the Penobscot and St. John Rivers in Maine : taken from a letter from Moses Greenleaf, Esq., to Rev. Dr. Morse.

"Reprinted from the First Report of The American Society for Promoting Civilization and General Improvement of Indian Tribes of the United States. New Haven, 1824."

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