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

Because spring comes so late to northern New England, things have to happen quickly and profusely. Spring is the time of year that wildlife and plants come to life again and get right to the business of creating new life.

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Spring -- New England
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England
Ecology/Energy

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Peol Tomer Letter
Maine State Archives, Text

Letter from Peol Tomer to the Governor and Council regarding going to the Northern Tribes to maintain neutrality during the Aroostook War.

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Indians of North America
Aroostook War
Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians
Indians
Land Disputes

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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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Commissioners Report and Agreement regarding purchase of Penobscot Indian lands
Maine State Archives, Text

Commissioners Report and Agreement regarding purchase of Penobscot Indian lands.

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

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Trails, Rails, and Roads
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:28:01

The story of transportation in Maine is the story of the state's ongoing challenge to keep its people connected both to economic markets and to each other. Whether it's Route 113 in western Maine, US Route 1 meandering up the coast, or the once plentiful rail routes that joined every corner of the state, Maine's communities have been formed by the patterns of transportation.

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Transportation
Railroads

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The Boy Who Lived with the Bears
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Story, "The Boy Who Lived with the Bears," as told by Sebbattis Joseph Mitchell to Manly Hardy.

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Legends
Native Americans
Passamaquoddy Indians
Passamaquoddy Tribe
Tales

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Request for information regarding Jo Peol Sock during the Civil War
Maine State Archives, Text

Letter from Charles S. Weld regarding a request from the grandmother of Jo Peol Sock, a 16 year old Penobscot Indian, to find out what regiment he enlisted in.

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History - Civil War
History - Civil War
External Forces: economic, demographic, technology, disease, wars
Indians of North America
Native Americans
Penobscot Tribe
Sugar Island

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Wesumbe deed, Nov. 28, 1668
Maine Historical Society, Text

By which Wesumbe, an Indian Sagamore known as Capt. Sandy, sells twenty square miles of land lying between the Great and Little Ossipee Rivers upon which stood the trading post of Francis Small, to Francis Small, of Kittery, an Indian trader, for the sum of two large Indian blankets, two gallons of rum, two pounds of powder, four pounds of musket balls and twenty strings of Indian beads.

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Chadborn, Humphrey
Deeds -- Maine -- York County -- 17th century
Hogan, Paufam
Indians of North America -- Maine -- Land tenure
Indians of North America -- Maine -- Trade
Indians of North America -- New England
Indians of North America -- New England -- History -- 17th century
Landowners -- Maine
Manuscripts
Names, Indian
Native Americans
Ossipee River (N.H. and Me.) -- History
Saco River (NH. and Me.) -- History
Sandy, Capt.
Small, Francis
Yobarly, Samson

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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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Pages from the 1900 Indian Township and Indian Island census
Maine State Archives, Text

1900 Indian Census - sample pages from the Indian Township and Indian Island census showing nativity of the Indian and parents, as well as the percentage of any mixed blood, along with occupations, etc.

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

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