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Passamaquoddy Indian Agent Report
Maine State Archives, Text

Report on the Pleasant Point reservation discussing the school, farming and the outbreak of smallpox.

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Indians of North America
Education
External Forces: economic, demographic, technology, disease, wars
Indians -- cultural relationships, traditions, adaptations
Indians -- Education
Smallpox
Native Americans

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Rolling back the frontier
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:45

In the 1600s, European settlers left everything they knew to take advantage of Maine’s abundant resources. Despite back-breaking work, a harsh climate, and cultural clashes, they successfully carved out a new life for themselves. But by the end of the century, most of them would leave Maine in fear and live for years as war refugees.

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Native Americans
Settlements

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View Colby College Museum of Art
Art History, Moving Image

Founded in 1959, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville has rapidly risen to become one of the more exceptional academic art museums in the country. This museum’s 110,000 square feet of space is divided into four wings, each with its own design features that provide unique advantages in the exhibition of works of art. The museum’s impressive permanent collection includes American, European and Asian art. American Heritage Collection is comprised of primitive paintings, watercolors and drawings. Holdings of significant 20th-century works by American artists feature those who lived or worked in Maine. Paintings and works on paper by John Marin represent a substantial survey of Marin’s career. An entire wing of the museum is devoted to the paintings, cut-outs and drawings by Alex Katz. The museum grounds feature the sculpture of Richard Serra and Sol LeWitt, who are among the luminaries of contemporary art.

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Colby College -- Museum of Art
Art -- Maine -- Waterville
Art

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My Debt to Maine by Theodore Roosevelt
Maine Historical Society, Text

Theodore Roosevelt describes his visits to Island Falls, Maine in Aroostook County when he was a boy and the Sewall family with whom he stayed. The essay goes on to describe his home, the Elkhorn, where he invited the Sewalls and the Dows of Island Falls to visit and hunt with him.

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Dow family (Island Falls, Me.)
Dow, Wilmot
Elkhorn (house)
Hunting -- Maine -- Island Falls
Katahdin (Mt.)
Lumbering industry -- Maine
Manuscripts
Presidents -- United States -- Personal narratives
Roosevelt, Theodore
Sewall family (Island Falls, Me.)
Sewall, Bill
Sewall, Dave
Showshoeing
Winter -- Maine -- Island Falls
Winter camping

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John Dunn's Moosehead Lake 1889 diary
Maine Historical Society, Text

This is a diary kept by John W.G. Dunn about his hunting and fishing trip in the Moosehead Lake area from August through September 1889. His guides were Henry Tremblay and John F. Hildreth.

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Dunn, John W.G.
Dunn, John W.G.(1869-1941) -- Diaries
Fishing -- Maine -- Diaries
Hildreth, John F.
Hunting -- Maine -- Diaries
Manuscripts
Moosehead Lake (Me.) -- Diaries
Tremblay Henry

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Princess Spotted Elk Interprets Indian Dance at Chicago Fair
Maine Folklife Center, Text

Newspaper clipping of a story about, and photo of, Molly Spotted Elk. The story describes her career as a dancer and interpreter of the lore of the Penobscot people. Notice how she portrays herself and Native culture in particular ways in order to attract and keep the attention of mainstream society.

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Dance
Native Americans
Penobscot Indian Nation
Penobscot Tribe

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Ragged Lake in the late 1800s
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

In 1887, wealthy, non-resident sportsman were welcomed by Maine for their tourist dollars. John Dunn and his sporting companions took advantage of the trophy fish and game found in the Moosehead Lake region of northern Maine. Charles Bullen Dunn, holding a hunting rifle, is in the center of this John Dunn photo taken at Ragged Lake; to his left is guide Henry Tremblay. Note the velvet-covered deer antlers behind the fly fishing rods indicating they were hunting well into the autumn months.

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Camping -- Maine
Camps -- Maine
Dunn, Charles Bullen
Dunn, John W.G. (1869-1941)
Guns -- Maine
Hunting -- Maine -- Photographs
Ragged Lake (Me.)
Ragged Lake (Me.) -- Photographs.
Recreation -- Maine
Tremblay Henry

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Bodies In Motion: The Biomechanics of Sports
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:54:36

Using athletics, QUEST takes a fresh look at the way our bodies move. Bridging the gap between research and the playing field, coaches, trainers and athletes themselves discover how to optimize performance and what to do when injury causes that performance to fail.

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Biomechanics
Sports -- Physiological aspects
Human mechanics
Human locomotion

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Pair of Indian Silver Earrings
Maine State Museum, Artifact

Pair of Indian trade silver earrings with wire loops. The earrings are diamond-shaped, with scalloped edges. The interior is pierced and stamped, also in a diamond formation. The maker's stamp, with initials, appears in the center. From the bottom of the diamond dangles a triangular piece, also stamped with the same initials at the apex and incised in a teardrop shape through the center. The bottom edge is shaped with three small scallops, set apart. Made by Canadian silversmiths for use and wear by Maine/Maritime Province Indians. Tag says Rene Blache 1771-1820.

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Iroquois
Native Americans

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John W. G. Dunn
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

Alice Dunn, John's newly-wed wife, is thought to have taken this picture of him on Moosehead Lake in 1904.

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Dunn, John W.
Dunn, John W.G. (1869-1941) -- Photographs
Fishing -- Maine
Moosehead Lake (Me.) -- Photographs

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