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The Frontier Wars
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:27:01

Land disputes, tensions about resource allocation and European wars combined to trigger intense strife and armed conflict between Maine's English, French and Native populations. The Frontier Wars were a series of six wars spanning nearly a century that devastated populations in Maine, and had a permanent and chilling effect on the relations between English settlers and Native Americans.

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Natural resources
Land Disputes
Native Americans
History - Colonial Period

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Court case regarding obstruction of river
Maine State Archives, Text

Court case Crocker vs. Ellis et al regarding a dam across the Machias River preventing the passage of logs.

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Dams
Environment: Fur trade, survival, industrial development, forest, conservation
Forests/Forestry
Judicial proceedings
Waterways
Lumbering

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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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People of the dawn
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:37

The first and longest lasting period of Maine’s history is the world of the Native American, stretching from the retreat of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years to the present. People of the Dawn tells the story of the dynamic people who’ve inhabited the landscape of Maine.

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Native Americans
Canoes and canoeing
Maliseet Tribe
Micmac Tribe
Penobscot Tribe
Passamaquoddy Tribe
Wabanaki Tribe

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Bioinvasion
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03

As human activity silently globalizes our world, our modern day ecology is under onslaught from spreading alien organisms. These plants and animals are capable of moving aggressively into a habitat and monopolizing resources to the detriment of other species. Can scientists help us win the war against this bio-invasion?

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Invasive species
Ecology

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Letter about Indian Raid on Casco Bay
Maine Historical Society, Text

Henry Jocelyn and Josh Scottow wrote this letter to John Leverett, Governor of Massachusetts from Blackpoint, Maine Sept. 13, 1676 about an indian raid on Casco Bay.

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Casco Bay (Me.) -- History -- Manuscripts -- 17th century
Governors -- Massachusetts
Indians of North America -- Maine -- History -- Manuscripts -- 17th century
Jocelyn, Henry
King Phillips War, (1675-1678)
Leverett, John -- Letters
Leverett, John,
Scottow, Josh
Native Americans

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The Penobscot Expedition and the Revolution
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:45

The Penobscot disaster is usually regarded as the worst American Naval disaster with the exception of Pearl Harbor. An accidental archeological discovery in the Penobscot River sheds new light on the desperate last moments of the worst defeat of the American Revolution.

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Penobscot Expedition, 1779
History - Revolutionary War
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

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Minister Hugh Henry v. the town of Scarborough
Maine State Archives, Text

Court Case involving the Minister Hugh Henry suing the town of Scarborough for past wages. This is the town's response regarding the impact of the Indian wars on the people of the town 1725.

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Indians of North America
Colonial Indian Wars
Colonists -- North America
Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians
Frontier and pioneer life -- North America
Indians -- wars: King Phillips, Anglo-Wabanaki, French-Indian
Judicial proceedings
Religion
Native Americans
Settlements
Land Disputes

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Resolve granting two townships of land to the Passamaquoddy Indians
Maine State Archives, Text

Resolve granting two townships of land to the Passamaquoddy Indians. 7 pages

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Indians of North America Land tenure
Indians of North America Treaties
Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians
Indians -- land rights
Native Americans
Land Disputes

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Post Road Mileage
Maine State Archives, Text

Post road mileage listing of stops and distance from Boston State House to Camden.

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Geography: transportation, waterways, maritime, shipbuilding, fishing
Mileage
Post Roads
Settlements

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