Wabanaki Studies

Introduction to Library Research

Selected subject headings to locate resources in Fogler Library's online catalog URSUS

• Abenaki Indians 
• Abenaki Indians -- Folklore
• Abenaki Indians -- History
• Abenaki Indians -- History -- 19th century
• Abenaki Indians -- Economic conditions
• Abenaki Indians -- Maine -- Government relations
• Abenaki Indians -- Missions
• Abenaki Indians -- Treaties
• Abenaki Indians -- Wars
• Abenaki Indians Social life and customs
• Malecite Indians
• Micmac Indians
• Passamaquoddy Indians
• Penobscot Indians

Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings. 4 vols. Washington, DC : Library of Congress, 2004.

Fogler Library Resources

A selected list of resources in Fogler Library.

• The Abenaki Indians : their treaties of 1713 and 1717, and a vocabulary, with a historical introduction
  (2011 reprint of 1859 publication available in microfiche)
• Abenaki Indian legends, grammar and place names
• The Abnakis and their history
• An account of the customs and manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets savage nations
• At loggerheads : the state of Maine and the Wabanaki : final report of the Task Force on Tribal-State Relations
• The Clarke & Lake Company : the historical archaeology of a seventeenth-century Maine settlement
• The Clarke & Lake site, 1654-1676 : a place of trading as well as planting (MA Thesis)
• A collection of articles on Maine Indians
• Fanny Hardy Eckstorm Collection - Her papers collected between 1833 and 1962
• The Fannie Hardy Eckstorm collection : an ethnopoetic analysis Penobscot ways with story (Ed.D. Thesis)
• The identity of the Saint Francis Indians
• In search of New England's native past : selected essays
• The Indians of Maine : a bibliographic guide
• Journal of several visits to the Indians on the Kennebec River
• The long search : Abnaki Indians of Katahdin
• New familiar Abenakis and English dialogues, the first ever published on the grammatical system
• The twilight of Abenaki independence : the Maine Abenaki during the 1750's  ( M.A. Thesis)
• The Wabanaki : an annotated bibliography of selected books, articles, documents about Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot
• The Wabanakis of Maine & the Maritimes : a resource book by and about Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, Micmac, and Abenaki Indians : with extensive resources for all educational levels including sample lesson plans
• The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800 : war, migration, and the survival of an Indian people
• The Wabanaki Collection and the William Wallace Tooker Papers in the Huntington Free Library : a guide to the microfilm edition

What are scholarly peer-reviewed articles?

Finding books and articles

A number of online databases are available to find articles about Abenaki Indians. Some useful online databases are:

• Abstracts in Anthropology
• Academic Search Complete
• America: History and Life
• Credo Reference
• JSTOR
• OneSearch
• Project Muse
• URSIS

- find out how to locate full texts of articles retrieved from online databases that have this icon (turn on your audio)

Multimedia Resources

The Media Resources Center, the Learning Materials Center and the Government Publications, Maps, GIS & Microforms Department at Fogler Library hold a variety of multimedia resources related to the Wabanaki people. Use the online catalog URSUS to find multimedia resources.

The following is a selected list of multimedia resources. 

• Wabanaki [videorecording]: a new dawn 
• Gabriel women Passamaquoddy basketmakers [videorecording]
• Gluskabe and the four wishes [sound recording]
• Abnaki, the native people of Maine [videorecording]
• RG 10 Indian Affairs [microform] 
• The Penobscot Indians, a brief account of their present condition [microform]
• Some Wabanaki songs [microform]
• Journal of several visits to the Indians on the Kennebec River [microform]
• The Abnakis and their history, or, Historical notices on the aborigines of Acadia [microform]
• The Abenaki Indians, their treaties of 1713 & 1717, and a vocabulary [microform] : with a historical introduction
• Indian good book [microform]
• Indian records, Province of Quebec and Lower Canada [microform] : 1717-1842
• A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson [microform] : containing an account of her sufferings, during four years, with the Indians and French
• Akitami kakikemesudi-arenarag' auikhigan, Messiui Arenâbak Uâbanakéuiak uitsi Pépâmkamigék éitsik, kisittunésa Jan Baptist Nudenans, mekazeusseuet nege u-d-Aresigâtegui Patrihansa [microform] (Abenaki Spelling book)

Selected online resources

• Maine Indians: A Web Resource for Teachers
• Malecite and Passamaquoddy Tales
• Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500–2000 (Full text of the 2007 ethnographic study of the Mount Desert Island  Wabanaki)
• Wabanaki Studies Full-Text Sources - collection of federal and state documents relating to the Wabanaki

Wabanaki Center

The Wabanaki Center located at 5724 Dunn Hall, Room 315, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5724 is an excellent source of services and information related to the Wabanaki people. The center also holds valuable resources about the Wabanaki people, including videos, manuscripts, books, and artefacts.

Where to go for assistance

• Ask at the Reference Desk:  Hours
• Ask a Librarian:

If you wish to make an appointment with the subject reference librarian, contact Joe Fernandez.

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Created by: Joe Fernandez | Revised: 04/18/2012